The day before an anticipated election call in the Great North, longtime USA resident Mike Myers is once again lacing up for Team Canada.
Following his patriotic “elbows up” shout out and “Canada Is Not For Sale” t-shirt on SNL earlier this month after a biting Elon Musk impression, the Austin Powers star today showed up in a rinkside video with newly minted Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney to wave the Maple Leaf figuratively some more.
Starting with former Bank of Canada and former Bank of England boss Carney watching a hockey game in a Team Canada jersey, the 60-second spot for the incumbent Liberal Party then see Myers stride into frame to greet Donald Trump‘s new tariff and trade war nemesis. “Mike Myers, what are you doing here?” says Carney in a mock surprise that screams out more acting lessons. “I just thought I’d come up and check on things,” Myers responds, not saying the continental upheaval out loud. “You live in the States?” Carney asks. “Yeah, but I’ll always be Canadian,” the suburban Toronto-born comedian snaps back.
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As you can see in the clip itself, Carney then subjects Myers to a rapid fire How-Canadian-Are-You? quiz (“What are the two seasons in Toronto?” being the funniest) the 61-year-old six season Saturday Night Live alum easily aces.
Elbows up, Canada. pic.twitter.com/0gJ2opnPjZ
— Mark Carney (@MarkJCarney) March 22, 2025
After proving his worth, Order of Canada recipient Myers enquires “let me ask you, Mr. Prime Minister, will there always be a Canada?” “There will always be a Canada,” Carney reassures him in what sure sounds like the election mantra for the now polling surging Liberals. “All right, elbows out,” Myers says in a very Wayne’s World way, reiterating the old Gordie Howie expression that has become Canada’s Trump resistance motto. “Elbows up,” Carney repeats.
The camera then shows the duo from behind with the PM’s jersey saying “Carney 97” and Myers reading “Never 51.”
Threatening Canada’s sovereignty even before his return to power on January 20, Trump mocked now the recently ex-PM as “Governor Trudeau” and proclaimed that the US’s number #1 trading partner would be far better positioned as America’s 51st state. Taken as just more shock value from Trump, the notion began being taken a lot more seriously in the last month as the MAGA administration hit Canada with a series of potentially crippling tariffs and restrictions.
Among the many effects, the on-again, off-again, and kind of on-again trade moves had the probably unintended blast radius of uniting Canadians like almost never before except at a national hockey match First the resigning Trudeau and now Carney have been the added benefits as Trump’s missives and misfires resurrected the long-reigning Liberals from the ballot dust-heap against the long double digit poll leading MAGA-lite Conservatives.
Another spanner in the works was Trump telling Fox News that “the Conservative that’s running is stupidly no friend of mine. I don’t know him but he said negative things. He went on to say, “I think it’s easier to deal actually with a Liberal.” Carney let the comment go without a response, but the once Trump loving Conservatives leap on it to say POTUS wanted a “weak, compromised and conflicted leadership” in Ottawa.
Going into what is likely an April 28 vote, with Myers and more at his side, the currently seatless in Parliament Carney now holds an averaged poll lead of 2%, 39-37, over the Tories and their leader Pierre Poilievre.
While that might not give the Liberals, who have been very supportive of lucrative provincial tax credits, the 170 seats they need in the country’s 338-seat Parliament to form a majority government, it could deliver enough wins to see an official or unofficial coalition with one of the smaller opposition parties. For many years, Trudeau, like his father 50 years ago, had such a deal with the progressive NDP.
Either way, elbows up
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