People Are Confusing Canada’s Next Prime Minister With One of the Kids in the Hall
Canada will soon have a new Prime Minister. And while we don’t know everything about him just yet, one thing we can say for certain is, he’s sadly not the “I’m crushing your head guy.”
Mark Carney was just elected to lead Canada’s Liberal party, replacing Justin Trudeau who resigned earlier this year. This will soon make him the country’s newest Prime Minister, because the Liberals currently hold a minority government in parliament — although Carney may not have the job for long, depending on the outcome of a federal election that must be called at some point this year, no later than October 20th. Sure it’s a little convoluted, but Canada probably won’t be taking notes from the country that elected the Ghosts Can't Do It guy twice.
Following the Liberal leadership vote, a right-wing YouTuber known as “The Pleb Reporter,” who is an outspoken supporter of Carney’s Conservative Party opponent Pierre Poilievre, blasted Carney for his plan “to ban X in Canada if they win the next election.”
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Wait, what?
Some reacted to this shocking news by arguing that such a plan would violate a “fundamental freedom in Canada,” and proves that “Canada is the next North Korea.” The only problem is, Carney never said anything about banning X, this guy did:
While the original post contained no sourcing, or really any information at all, the “Community Notes” tab soon indicated that the claim was likely derived, not from Mark Carney, but from another Canadian guy named “Mark.”
On March 5th, Mark McKinney, of The Kids in the Hall and “insulting Lorne Michaels to his face” fame, publicly questioned whether or not Canada could “shut down X in our country” and “build out a Canadian Twitter.”
The fact that a political social media account seemingly confused a sketch comedian with the incoming Prime Minister simply because they share the same first name, and both had last names ending in Y, elicited quite a bit of ridicule on the social media platform that probably isn’t going to be banned in Canada any time soon.
McKinney himself commented on the screw-up, too, suggesting that he might be Carney after all because, despite having better hair, he totally remembers running the Bank of England at one point.
Interestingly enough, McKinney once claimed that he only got into comedy after his “dream of becoming Prime Minister of Canada” fell through.
If McKinney were to run in this year’s election for real, who knows, maybe there would be enough confused voters to finally elect Canada’s first-ever Kid in the Hall Prime Minister.
