Canadians are hardly eager for more economic risk at this point... !
All western nations face similar challenges and records, so why single out Carney?
Cons are losing their shit over the prospect of facing Carney, who accurately assessed Poilievre's understanding of economics to be superficial and juvenile.
Hmm... what a choice:
Poilievre is an ideologue devoted to Thatcherism and Reaganomics, frozen in time in his Young Campus Conservative phase, while Carney has a ton of 21st century, highest level experience steering G7 economies through brutal crises that we are still navigating...
Nominating Carney also presupposes the election will be decided not only on purely economic issues, but that those issues will be argued purely on an economic basis.
Do we really think the immigration discussion begins and ends with the economy? That our relationship with native peoples is purely an economic discussion? Climate change? Housing? That all of these only exist as questions of dry economic arithmetic?
And if those issues are more than just economics, what exactly does Carney supposedly bring to the table?
Carney has zero electoral or partisan experience. No ideological coalition. No public debate experience defending his policies on anything but strict economic grounds.
Even if he runs, and even if a certain about of the senior insiders want to crown him, I wouldn’t be surprised if he gets butchered in any actual leadership race
The fact that PP would be a disaster isn’t a reason to excuse the Liberals in potentially nominating a weak candidate. Rather the opposite I’d think. If PP is really an existential threat we should be seeking out and demanding truly exceptional candidates to oppose him
I'm not as detailed about my thoughts on Carney. My simple take: he reminds me too much of Ignatieff. The Liberal leader needs to be outside the party and personable.
Good column, as usual. Unfortunately, i don’t think the liberals have any « savior » they can rely on, especially with an election that could come at any time now. Trudeau has butched his exit so bad that there isn’t any room for a new leader to shift things dramatically. Also, for the sake of the party, i think the liberals a real post-Trudeau leadership race rather than a botch-up process. Yes, it probably means a PP majority government but I prefer to have PP one term if it could also us to rebuild and coming back stronger on 2029
There is currently a vigorous debate about macroeconomics and the functions of a central bank. Many views are that central bankers generally got the Great Financial Crisis and COVID wrong. Is Mr. Carney up to date on all this? Does he realize that the way he (and others) functioned as central banker is no longer considered best practice?
In any case, while I'm sure that Mr. Carnet would be a decent Minster of Finance, what about all the other files? A government should include many experts, but the leader should be a generalist, who can pull it all together and figure out how to move forward as a nation.
So you hold it against Carney that he earned scholarships and worked his way up as an economist in public service over decades?
How is this a problem?
Carney's resume sure looks broader and deeper than that of MP-for-life Poilievre.
Poilievre remains stuck in a loop, still sounding like a Campus Conservative obsessed with communism and Ayn Rand, still spouting the language of the Cold War and Reaganomics.
His interview with Peterson offers us a treasure trove of priceless quotations.
Nope; I don't hold it against him at all. In fact, good on him!
I, instead, hold it against him that he has sufficiently ingratiated himself into a class system and has become one of the Laurentians, notwithstanding his birth place.
I can see that we hold different views on Carney and I wish you well, even though we hold those different views.
I currently hold an open mind about Carney. I have no idea whether he would be a successful political leader at this time.
He clearly has exceptional qualifications and experience, as well as actually having grown up in the West, which is a very rare trait among our national leaders.
It's fascinating that Conservatives seem so scared of him.
Canadians are hardly eager for more economic risk at this point... !
All western nations face similar challenges and records, so why single out Carney?
Cons are losing their shit over the prospect of facing Carney, who accurately assessed Poilievre's understanding of economics to be superficial and juvenile.
Hmm... what a choice:
Poilievre is an ideologue devoted to Thatcherism and Reaganomics, frozen in time in his Young Campus Conservative phase, while Carney has a ton of 21st century, highest level experience steering G7 economies through brutal crises that we are still navigating...
Nominating Carney also presupposes the election will be decided not only on purely economic issues, but that those issues will be argued purely on an economic basis.
Do we really think the immigration discussion begins and ends with the economy? That our relationship with native peoples is purely an economic discussion? Climate change? Housing? That all of these only exist as questions of dry economic arithmetic?
And if those issues are more than just economics, what exactly does Carney supposedly bring to the table?
Carney has zero electoral or partisan experience. No ideological coalition. No public debate experience defending his policies on anything but strict economic grounds.
Even if he runs, and even if a certain about of the senior insiders want to crown him, I wouldn’t be surprised if he gets butchered in any actual leadership race
Oh yes, we'd be much better off with Poilievre than Carney or Trudeau or
anybody else you can think of.
Extreme Sarcasm. PP is the absolute worst candidate there is! Get over giving him a pass.
The fact that PP would be a disaster isn’t a reason to excuse the Liberals in potentially nominating a weak candidate. Rather the opposite I’d think. If PP is really an existential threat we should be seeking out and demanding truly exceptional candidates to oppose him
I'm not as detailed about my thoughts on Carney. My simple take: he reminds me too much of Ignatieff. The Liberal leader needs to be outside the party and personable.
We need Chrystia Freeland... I know you don't like her but get over that and think about it.... HER VS Trump.... she will wipe the floor with him...
Good column, as usual. Unfortunately, i don’t think the liberals have any « savior » they can rely on, especially with an election that could come at any time now. Trudeau has butched his exit so bad that there isn’t any room for a new leader to shift things dramatically. Also, for the sake of the party, i think the liberals a real post-Trudeau leadership race rather than a botch-up process. Yes, it probably means a PP majority government but I prefer to have PP one term if it could also us to rebuild and coming back stronger on 2029
There is currently a vigorous debate about macroeconomics and the functions of a central bank. Many views are that central bankers generally got the Great Financial Crisis and COVID wrong. Is Mr. Carney up to date on all this? Does he realize that the way he (and others) functioned as central banker is no longer considered best practice?
In any case, while I'm sure that Mr. Carnet would be a decent Minster of Finance, what about all the other files? A government should include many experts, but the leader should be a generalist, who can pull it all together and figure out how to move forward as a nation.
The fact that he "looks the part" probably plays an outsize role (subconsciously?) in the potency people place on his potential leadership.
Plus, he's a hockey goalie from Edmonton.
Not a "Laurentian elite" 🤣
Except by adoption (by him and by them), by education and by profession.
So, no not an elite. To quote Maureen Camille Ellen Heon above, "extreme sarcasm."
So you hold it against Carney that he earned scholarships and worked his way up as an economist in public service over decades?
How is this a problem?
Carney's resume sure looks broader and deeper than that of MP-for-life Poilievre.
Poilievre remains stuck in a loop, still sounding like a Campus Conservative obsessed with communism and Ayn Rand, still spouting the language of the Cold War and Reaganomics.
His interview with Peterson offers us a treasure trove of priceless quotations.
Hubris is a word he might want to learn...
Nope; I don't hold it against him at all. In fact, good on him!
I, instead, hold it against him that he has sufficiently ingratiated himself into a class system and has become one of the Laurentians, notwithstanding his birth place.
I can see that we hold different views on Carney and I wish you well, even though we hold those different views.
I currently hold an open mind about Carney. I have no idea whether he would be a successful political leader at this time.
He clearly has exceptional qualifications and experience, as well as actually having grown up in the West, which is a very rare trait among our national leaders.
It's fascinating that Conservatives seem so scared of him.
Very rational assessment, Evan. Unfortunately politics and political decisions are based on a different form of "rationality".