Is political accountability only for Americans?

Notes for 'Premier Walz' -- and a nation in denial -- in the pre-dawn hours of 2026.

“I was happy as punch to see the [Governor Walz] get nominated.”

“We shared a lot in common . . . We’re going to work well together.”

-Ontario Premier Doug Ford on August 7th 2024, following the announcement that Minnesota Governor Tim Walz had been chose as Kamala Harris’s running-mate for Vice President.

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz won’t seek third term as fraud scandal churns

“The former Democratic nominee for vice president is awash in fallout from a recent viral video that propelled yearslong fraud allegations to the forefront of a national conversation.” (CNN)

Ontario Premier Doug Ford is back to splattering the pavement with Canadian rye to open 2026, leaving it to the principled and accountability-minded to prepare the province for a painful year ahead.

Meanwhile, the irony should not be lost on the Canadian public, that, at present, 1,114km northwest of Queen’s Park, a kindred political spirit of the Canadian premier, Tim Walz — who shares all the requisite fake-folksiness used to mask a deeply cynical, calculating, allegedly* criminal operator — has been rolled up for an unprecedented American scandal Ford might only bat an eyelash at.

Walz, first outed by Country Highway, then Chris Rufo, and finally 23-year-old Nick Shirley, and who is no longer seeking reelection, is believed to have served in willful idiocy, as “a decade of Somali fraud schemes stole billions of taxpayer dollars, some of which ended up with Al-Shabaab terrorists back in Somalia. These were sophisticated criminal enterprises that exploited Minnesota’s generous welfare state, deployed accusations of racism to deter scrutiny, and looted the public treasury until local prosecutors did the hard work to bring them down.” (City Journal.)

At last blush, Since 2022, almost 90% of people charged with felony fraud in Minnesota are believed to be Somali, per Fox.

75% of all American Somalis are believed to be on “full welfare benefits,” per Congressman James Comer.

This is a story of how mass immigration, ‘antiracism’, and a welfare state inexorably lead to fraud.

This was “looting, pillage, theft, billions in disbursements, and all on the honor system.” (Country Highway.)

If this all sounds vaguely familiar, that’s because it’s routinely Canadian, and entirely Ontarian.