By Pepper Parr
October 26th, 2024
BURLINGTON, ON
Things were really brutal in Ottawa on Friday – the Liberals met as a caucus and gave the Prime Minister until the 28th, to give up his job and let the party choose a new leader to face the public not later than October 20, 2025.
Exciting stuff. My thinking was that the kid would hang in and face Pierre Poilievre in a federal election. Justin Trudeau is a great campaigner – he knows how to work a crowd and he loves being out there.
Mark Carney in conversation with Nate Erskine-Smith.
For lifelong Liberals he was the only choice; yes there are a handful that would want to run for the Liberal leadership if the job was available.
Not much time to hold a leadership convention – and is there a candidate that could, in my view win an election.
Mark Carney
Mark Carney, Governor of the Bank of Canada as well as Governor of the Bank of England has been touted as a good choice. My view was that he was unknown and untested and that it would be hard to see him as a solid retail politician who would excel on the hustings.
Did you read his book? Values, it isn’t exactly a page-turner.
Yesterday I watched Mark Carney’s hour-long conversation with Nate Erskine-Smith. That conversation changed my mind.
First Carney knew his stuff – but more than that he was relaxed as he answered the questions – didn’t evade and came across as someone you would trust. Not a lot in the way of ego either.
But that is my opinion – what I’d like you to do is listen to the guy and make up your own mind. This guy is no push over and he knows that the problems we face are going to take time and money to resolve.
Does Carney want to be a candidate? I thought I heard Nate say he was prepared to canvas for Carney in the Spadina Waterfront riding when the election is called.
The conversation is HERE
Few will put in a full hour to hear what Carney has to say – but dip into the interview and listen. It would be really hard for the Liberals to do better. What drives the Gazette is the belief that: “Informed people can make informed decisions.”
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Yup! Carney is just what the country needs: another haughty, elitist academic steeped in the finest traditions of Liberal entitlement with the personality of a wet towel. I can’t wait to see him on the campaign trail talking about Hicks and Slutsky equivalent and compensating variations, and see how that resonates with ordinary Canadians. Liberal campaign organizers should ensure there is plenty of coffee on hand because supporters will need tons of it just to stay awake through his speeches. Carney looks and sounds like U.S. former Presidential candidate and climate czar John Kerry, and we all know how well he did in 2004.
What the Liberals actually need is a small “c” conservative with some substantive business experience in the traditions of a Robert Winters or an Eric Kierans who can connect with a cross-section of voters, and who understands that amassing tons of debt and building a massive bureaucracy isn’t what the country needs. However, given the free spenders in Trudeau’s Cabinet this won’t happen anytime soon.
Editor’s note: The democracy we have makes room for different opinions.
I gave the conversation 20 minutes of my time. Carney is knowledgeable and would possibly make a good professor if he could deliver his message the average Canadian would understand in a TedX 18 minute talk.
Bring on Christy Clark, the Liberal party needs a reboot and Carney is not the way forward, he is more of the not so “sunny ways” that we have had since 2015. Same with the entire Trudeau inner circle, time for them to take a walk in the snow as well.
Politics is a”blood sport”.Public servants like Carney never make it.They are not good stretchers of the truth.