Monday, March 10, 2025

It's Carney!


Mark Carney is the new Liberal leader and Prime Minister designate - we will find out soon what the schedule will be for Trudeau resigning and Carney being sworn in.
 
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Carney's acceptance speech was basically his introduction to the Canadian electorate. I thought he did a good job and hit the right notes - his good humour was evident, along with his opposition to Trump and Poilievre.  
I really hope he has the time and energy to travel across the country over the next few weeks - yes, he did a lot of travelling as a candidate, but he wasn't introducing himself to ordinary Canadians, who need to meet him as soon as they can.
Here are some other comments:
  And I was glad to hear Carney say this, too:
 
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The CBC At Issue panel held an interesting discussion about Carney and the speech. Hebert said Carney delivered the speech the party wanted to hear. In talking about the upcoming election, the panel predicted it would be held before May 15.  Hebert noted that the election will now be decided based on whether Canadians see Carney or Poilievre as the best leader to deal with Trump:

Of course, we'er also hearing the usual negativity from the usual suspects: Paul Wells 
Gravity(s) 
Mark Carney brings the Liberals down to earth. Watch that landing 
 ...Carney’s acceptance speech was terribly dull, almost perfunctory. Maybe voters will like it. 
 ...A thesis of Carney’s victory speech was that these are “dark days brought on by a country we can no longer trust.” The question facing Carney, Poilievre — all of us — is whether our actions begin to reflect the scale of the test that implies.
...I spoke to a European diplomat last week who absolutely could not believe that Canadians, including Mark Carney, are still talking about defence spending drifting lazily up toward 2% of GDP in a half-decade. 
....It’s a big problem that Carney has never faced an electorate or dealt with the complicated play of permission and audacity that democratic leadership requires.
 ...I wish we knew more about Carney in this context, the context of governing choices....
The National Post weighs in:
Yeah yeah yeah, cry me a river.... 

Finally, here's an interesting observation: And on a side note:
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3 comments:

Purple library guy said...

"Politicized the Bank of Canada"--the Bank of Canada IS political. If Carney being in politics helps us remember that, that's a GOOD thing.

The Bank of Canada has great power to have impacts on our economy--impacts which affect different sectors and income levels differently. Deciding who is to be helped and who is to be hurt by Bank of Canada actions is a POLITICAL decision.

12:26 pm
Cap said...

Gotta agree with PLG here. Central banks like to pretend they're apolitical just because they have some independence from the government. But you don't get to sit on the board if you're a labour economist.

Nevertheless, after dealing with Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson, I trust that Carney knows how to handle rich morons and their idiotic hangers-on like the Brexiteers.

12:47 pm
Cathie from Canada said...

When Jon Stewart asked Carney why Canada had escaped the banking shenanigans of 2007/8 Carney said, because we couldn't understand them. I thought that was a remarkably humble but straightforward way to phrase it. I hope he continues to be as clear in his thinking and speech. If so, he will handle rich morons here just fine

5:17 pm

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