There clearly is a real desire on the part of Liberals to see/hear/evaluate Carney here in BC. He has largely been an unknown, as most people haven't followed his career in banking. But when you tell folks about his track record of steady leadership during the 2008 financial meltdown and how he candidly told the Brits how Brexit would seriously affect their economic welfare, they seem impressed. Carney is coming to North Van tonight and there are a heck of a lot of people who have registered to hear him speak. Last night Jonathan Wilkinson had an event in West Van which was also packed. The questions were all about the US threat and what we can do about it. Some people even talked about selling off their US stock portfolio, and there were lots of questions about buying Canadian, improving our national energy infrastructure to become far less reliant on the US. So we shall see how this plays out, as we move closer to a national election. Patricia Bowles, West Vancouver
I'm looking forward to seeing the Conservative ads against Carney.
I suspect they will opt for harsh-as-hell attacks, as they panic under this new, unforeseen pressure.
And, "Just Like" the 'nice-hair-but-not-ready' ads back in 2015, negative, personal ads will fail to work.
Because the more people find out about Carney, the more they will turn to him as the steady, calm, experienced leader they want right now.
And Poilievre is unlikely to adapt because he is a robot programmed with only silly rhymes, negativity, and attack mode. He has always been thus -- one gear.
The Cons are discovering that their lack of policy substance is no match for a smart, reassuring, and likable guy like Carney.
Hope, confidence, and serious ideas will carry the day over fear, insecurity, and glib slogans.
I am not sure it is a Carney-momentum. I think it is a Poilievre-collapse.
Poilievre’s inability to pivot away from the “Canada is broken” does not give confidence he is the right leader for “Canada is under attack”. Part of this is Poilievre’s personality, the other part is that he needs the support from the Trump supporting part of his base. As soon as he critiques Trump or MAGA, there people will run to the PPC in a heartbeat.
The change from "Canada is Broken/Axe the Tax" to building military bases in the Arctic is an indicator of how seriously the Catch Phrase Canada party takes the change in Liberals popularity as well as how much a threat they see the regime of President Trump.
Another important thing for many of us is Carney's acknowledgement of how grave the climate emergency really is, if only because of its economic impact. What he will do remains to be seen, and the threats posed by Trump will clearly take priority, but he does seem to take climate seriously.
I think these polls can both be correct, and not be reflective of a long term trend. We all saw the Kamala bump after her coronation and that faded hard going into election day.
It was only 3 months ago that Liberal Twitter would continue to scream "polls don't matter because the election isn't for another year". They were right then (although abridged now) and the same applies now.
I think there are lot of hurdles for Carney to get over when he actually transitions into PMO. It's possible that the Cons, who seem uncharacteristically off the ball on the attacks, are saving their best ammo for when it counts.
I think it helps Carney’s Canadian image, both self and public, that he kept a bit of an outsider persona when outside of the country. For example, even when he had been running the Bank of England for years the press viewed him as some guy from the colonies. He’s never really been “one of us” anywhere but in Canada.
It’s surprising to me that the CPC hasn’t started spending *real* money on defining Carney already, given that the public polls show Carney having the only chance of keeping the CPC out of government. If the CPC define Carney so much that they bring Freeland or someone else to the LPC leadership, that’s not a problem for them.
Is there a strategy that I’m missing? It can’t be a sense of fair play, that doesn’t sound plausible these days.
I suspect they’re having trouble figuring out an angle. I’m not saying Carney doesn’t have any weaknesses, but he certainly doesn’t have many that lend themselves to noun-the-verb attacks.
He’s respectable and boring in a way that would make hysterical attacks hurt the CPC’s credibility almost more than it hurts his
Mr. Carney is clearly the only viable alternative to lead this country and win against the noise down south.
There clearly is a real desire on the part of Liberals to see/hear/evaluate Carney here in BC. He has largely been an unknown, as most people haven't followed his career in banking. But when you tell folks about his track record of steady leadership during the 2008 financial meltdown and how he candidly told the Brits how Brexit would seriously affect their economic welfare, they seem impressed. Carney is coming to North Van tonight and there are a heck of a lot of people who have registered to hear him speak. Last night Jonathan Wilkinson had an event in West Van which was also packed. The questions were all about the US threat and what we can do about it. Some people even talked about selling off their US stock portfolio, and there were lots of questions about buying Canadian, improving our national energy infrastructure to become far less reliant on the US. So we shall see how this plays out, as we move closer to a national election. Patricia Bowles, West Vancouver
I'm looking forward to seeing the Conservative ads against Carney.
I suspect they will opt for harsh-as-hell attacks, as they panic under this new, unforeseen pressure.
And, "Just Like" the 'nice-hair-but-not-ready' ads back in 2015, negative, personal ads will fail to work.
Because the more people find out about Carney, the more they will turn to him as the steady, calm, experienced leader they want right now.
And Poilievre is unlikely to adapt because he is a robot programmed with only silly rhymes, negativity, and attack mode. He has always been thus -- one gear.
The Cons are discovering that their lack of policy substance is no match for a smart, reassuring, and likable guy like Carney.
Hope, confidence, and serious ideas will carry the day over fear, insecurity, and glib slogans.
I am not sure it is a Carney-momentum. I think it is a Poilievre-collapse.
Poilievre’s inability to pivot away from the “Canada is broken” does not give confidence he is the right leader for “Canada is under attack”. Part of this is Poilievre’s personality, the other part is that he needs the support from the Trump supporting part of his base. As soon as he critiques Trump or MAGA, there people will run to the PPC in a heartbeat.
Carney was in Kelowna BC.
Came across pretty good.
Shows he is quite personable.
Could go quite well the way I see it, especially compared to the guy in the toque.
The change from "Canada is Broken/Axe the Tax" to building military bases in the Arctic is an indicator of how seriously the Catch Phrase Canada party takes the change in Liberals popularity as well as how much a threat they see the regime of President Trump.
You can add Mr Black to your “fickle Canadian” list.
It’s always what Canada can do for them instead of how they can contribute to Canada.
Another important thing for many of us is Carney's acknowledgement of how grave the climate emergency really is, if only because of its economic impact. What he will do remains to be seen, and the threats posed by Trump will clearly take priority, but he does seem to take climate seriously.
I think these polls can both be correct, and not be reflective of a long term trend. We all saw the Kamala bump after her coronation and that faded hard going into election day.
It was only 3 months ago that Liberal Twitter would continue to scream "polls don't matter because the election isn't for another year". They were right then (although abridged now) and the same applies now.
I think there are lot of hurdles for Carney to get over when he actually transitions into PMO. It's possible that the Cons, who seem uncharacteristically off the ball on the attacks, are saving their best ammo for when it counts.
I think it helps Carney’s Canadian image, both self and public, that he kept a bit of an outsider persona when outside of the country. For example, even when he had been running the Bank of England for years the press viewed him as some guy from the colonies. He’s never really been “one of us” anywhere but in Canada.
It’s surprising to me that the CPC hasn’t started spending *real* money on defining Carney already, given that the public polls show Carney having the only chance of keeping the CPC out of government. If the CPC define Carney so much that they bring Freeland or someone else to the LPC leadership, that’s not a problem for them.
Is there a strategy that I’m missing? It can’t be a sense of fair play, that doesn’t sound plausible these days.
I suspect they’re having trouble figuring out an angle. I’m not saying Carney doesn’t have any weaknesses, but he certainly doesn’t have many that lend themselves to noun-the-verb attacks.
He’s respectable and boring in a way that would make hysterical attacks hurt the CPC’s credibility almost more than it hurts his