Mark Carney, Justin Trudeau and Katy Perry party in Switzerland as Canada burns
As Canada faces extensive job losses, our current and former PMs hang out with the elites at the World Economic Forum
Author of the article:Joe Warmington
Published Jan 20, 2026 • Last updated 1 day ago • 5 minute read
Prime Minister Mark Carney
Prime Minister Mark Carney gestures as he speaks during the World Economic Forum (WEF) annual meeting in Davos on January 20, 2026. Photo by FABRICE COFFRINI /AFP
Let them eat chocolate!
Canada’s current and former prime ministers — and the latter’s celebrity gal pal — are “gallivanting” in Switzerland as Oshawa’s local economy evaporates. Ingersoll, Brampton and Sault Ste. Marie’s too.
While Prime Minister Mark Carney, Justin Trudeau and his pop star-girlfriend Katy Perry are hanging out with the Great Reset and New World Order crowd in the Swiss alps, Oshawa is bracing itself for 1,000 workers to lost their jobs on Jan. 30.
“They are so out of touch with reality,” said Unifor Local 222 president Jeff Gray of Canada’s leaders. “They are gallivanting around while our country is falling apart at the seams.”
And Carney, effectively, raised the white flag of defeat in Davos on Tuesday.
“We actively take on the world as it is, not wait for the world as we wish it to be,” the PM told the World Economic Forum. “The old order is not coming back. We should not mourn it. Nostalgia is not a strategy. But from the fracture, we can build something better, stronger and more just.”
5,000 jobs gone
A New World Order?
The reality Gray’s dealing with, however, is the shutdown of the third Chevy Silverado shift in Oshawa in just over a week.
“This is happening,” he said. “We will lose more than 1,000 jobs from the plant and the local supply chain. All of those jobs are going to Fort Wayne, Indiana.”
An estimated 5,000 jobs are disappearing this month in the car and steel business. Even hundreds of public sector jobs in Ottawa are vanishing too. Meanwhile, Canada’s leaders are high up in the expensive mountains in Europe as Canada is in economic free fall.
Former prime minister Justin Trudeau holds hands with Katy Perry as they leave an event during the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland on Tuesday, Jan. 20, 2026.
Former prime minister Justin Trudeau holds hands with Katy Perry as they leave an event during the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland on Tuesday, Jan. 20, 2026. Photo by Sean Kilpatrick /The Canadian Press
With that reality, it is galling to see Carney show up with the giant Canada jet at this conference and Trudeau and Perry doing a vanity walk through the Davos mountainside village as if they’re royalty. None of them are scraping by to make mortgage payments for fear of losing their homes.
Patronizing word salads
It’s sickening when you think of how many millions of Canadian tax dollars these globalists have squandered over the years at fancy gatherings like the WEF while they make life so expensive with their climate change taxes and initiatives — then fly into that place on their pollution-spewing luxury jets.
“Never underestimate the resolve, the motivation and strength of people standing up to defend their sovereignty, their identity, their very existence,” Trudeau told a World Economic Forum audience.
Another patronizing Trudeau word salad soundbite that means little. Especially to those families about to lose their livelihoods.
Justin Trudeau
Former prime minister Justin Trudeau delivers a speech during the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland on Tuesday, Jan. 20, 2026. Photo by Sean Kilpatrick /The Canadian Press
And Carney met with France’s leader Emmanuel Macron while, according to The Canadian Press, encouraging business investment into Canada.
But none of what either leader has done or is doing with the World Economic Forum, or any of their other actions, has saved Canadian jobs. They are disappearing by the boatload.
Jobs market bleeding
Oshawa is losing the shift. Algoma Steel is shuttering 1,000 jobs soon, and two car plants are essentially mothballed despite a work force and agreements in place.
“Right now, two Canadian auto plants are idled,” said Unifor Canada.
Unifor president Lana Payne noted that in addition to the shift loss in Oshawa, the “GM CAMI Assembly Plant in Ingersoll and the Stellantis Assembly Plant in Brampton, where there is currently no vehicle programs allocated, and approximately 4,000 Unifor members without work.”
Unemployed Canadians won’t be able to afford to eat fondue or chocolate in Davos or anywhere else.
“It is imperative that the federal government focus their efforts on finding an immediate resolve to the challenges we face,” said Unifor. “The first priority must be getting these plants back to work and stabilizing the auto sector. Unifor has urged the federal government to defend Canadian autoworkers and the domestic auto industry, using all policy tools at its disposal.”
Payne explains: “If we don’t protect jobs and supply chains now, there will be no foundation left to build the industry for the next generation. That means the federal government must hold all of the automakers to the commitments they made to Canadian workers and the investments they promised. The Prime Minister has publicly reassured autoworkers, after speaking with executives, that new product programs are under consideration – nothing has yet been confirmed or delivered.”
And no meeting with elites has delivered any solutions or jobs.
“Absolutely nothing,” said Gray.
As for Carney’s trips to China and Qatar, Gray believes, the benefit of any deals in those countries will be for them at Canada’s expense.
Canadian auto market facing extinction
Premier Doug Ford has called new electric cars from communist China “spy cars” and Gray says “any deals with dictatorships will come back and haunt us.”
The spin that Chinese-made cars with no manufacturing in Canada will only result in 3% of the Canadian market is nonsense, said Gray.
“We have seen this before with China. Once they are in the door, they will find a way to flood our market,” said Gray.
Payne adds, “We won’t have a competitive auto industry, or the jobs it supports, if we don’t build vehicles here in Canada. Chinese auto companies aren’t building in Canada, despite vague promises of investment years down the road” and “where China has entered other markets the playbook is always the same. Much of the supply chain remains in China, propped up by massive state subsidies and low wages, while parts are shipped in for minimal assembly locally, creating few jobs and no real industrial base.”
The focus of Carney should be on working to get the relationship back on track with Trump and the United States.
“We love Americans,” said Gray. “One hundred per cent we need to get a trade deal with the U.S.”
Flying into Davos with a bunch of oblique, feel-good language and buzz words and prancing around like celebrities is not going to replace the thousands of Canadian jobs that are disappearing.
And no amount of hamming it up for the international paparazzi is going to fix that.
jwarmington@postmedia.com
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