What Carney should have said about Venezuela

Canada Has Spent Decades Undermining Venezuelan Democracy

By Yves Engler – Jan 6, 2026 As part of justifying Donald Trump’s crass imperial aggression in Venezuela Canadian officials have taken up the mantra of “democracy”. In one post on the weekend Mark Carney opined about “the democratic will of the Venezuelan people” while in a follow-up statement the prime minister boasted that “Canada has not recognised the illegitimate regime of Maduro since it stole the 2018 election.” But Canadian hostility to …

What Carney should have said about Venezuela

By Conrad Black The enfeebling ambiguity of Canada as a government and a state among the nations of the world is underlined almost every week. The prime minister’s statement on the removal of former Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro was commendably critical of the former president and skirted international law questions in a way that permits Carney to claim to recognize them without aggravating our relations with the Trump administration with …