It comes down to this: the banker vs the wanker

(Illustration from Wayne Horton's substack )

We're almost at the end now, and the choice comes down to this:

Banker or wanker.

Your choice, Canada.#cdnpoli #elxn45

— Ian Morrison 🇨🇦 (@IanDMorrison) April 18, 2025

If you'd told me a few months ago that I'd be desperately hoping that a 60-year-old white male banker was going to be officially elected Canada's Prime Minister, I'd have told myself to fuck right off with that nonsense, but here we are

— Clare Blackwood (@clareblackwood.bsky.social) April 25, 2025 at 3:31 PM

Compare and contrast:

Carney and 22 Minutes:

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Poilievre and 22 Minutes:

Pierre Poilievre ignores 22 Minutes

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— Mark Carney For PM (@markcarneyforpm.bsky.social) April 25, 2025 at 10:06 AM

Carney serves poutine:

How could you not vote for Mark Carney?
He is a true Canadian.
Plays street hockey with the kids. Pours and drinks his own beer.
He even understands what it is like being behind the counter serving up poutine pic.twitter.com/FYRGd2DEwW

— sonofabench (@therealmrbench) April 23, 2025

Poilieve spills the pizza:

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Carney is front and centre in his final ad, which is all about Canada:

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Poilievre isn't even mentioned in his campaign's final ads - elderly golfers, Harper smiling:

Have you noticed that the Cons have completely hidden Poilievre from their TV ads in these final two weeks? Not a single ad features him. They’ve realised he’s reviled outside his base. The Libs are blitzing the airwaves with Carney this week as he’s a revered world class star.

— Stephano Barberis 🍁 (@hellostephano.bsky.social) April 23, 2025 at 4:37 AM

Here's an excellent and detailed comparison between the Carney and Poilievre platforms. It ends like this:

Wayne Horton

The Final Exam for Canadian Leadership
Comparing The Final Submissions for the Job of Canadian Prime Minister
....Final Exam: Vote the Country You Want to Live In
You’ve seen the coursework. You’ve read the platforms. This is the final exam.
And if there’s one thing we’ve learned from this campaign, it’s that intentions aren’t enough. Preparedness matters.
Mark Carney didn’t just show up with a platform. He brought two decades of global economic leadership, a doctorate in economics from Oxford, and a clear, well articulated, unwavering approach to economic success—at the Bank of Canada, at the Bank of England, and in his widely praised 2021 book Value(s)—and turned that into a blueprint for Canada’s future.
His platform doesn’t guess. It calculates. It’s costed. It’s coordinated. It’s consistent with everything he’s said for years about how to balance markets with morals, productivity with prosperity, and sovereignty with sustainability.
Pierre Poilievre, by contrast, has built his campaign on slogans. He spent two years promising deregulation, denouncing carbon pricing, and stirring anger at institutions—only to drop a platform eight days late that borrowed Carney’s talking points without understanding the logic behind them. It’s the policy equivalent of copying off the smartest kid in class and still failing the test because you didn’t do the reading.
Carney isn’t just smarter on the page. He’s already working on Canada’s behalf abroad—restoring lines of communication and relationships with Europe and the UK that were dusty if not strained by years of instability. Trade credit, strategic funds, climate frameworks—these aren’t talking points. They’re tools. And he’s put them to work.
Meanwhile, with the threat of a second Trump term looming, we don’t need a leader who’ll pivot back toward the comfort of populist soundbites or American pressure. We need one who can chart a course that puts Canadian independence first. A man who understands that real sovereignty means building things at home, trading on our terms, and defending our values with real capacity.
This isn’t blind partisanship. There are some holes in the Liberal platform too, but they only had a couple of months to refine it, while the world changed around them, and I'm confident that they're filling those holes as we speak. This isn't a time for incremental gains, and policy tweaks. This is a time for agility, vision, and innovation, that's what Carney brings to the table. He's helped both Canada and the UK to navigate some stormy economic seas in the past. This will be his biggest challenge but he is by far the most qualified candidate for the job.
So vote like you’re hiring the next Prime Minister—because you are. Vote like the world is changing—because it is.
Vote like this exam matters.

As we finally reach the end of this election campaign, I am also seeing a realization that we need to win more than just this specific electoral battle. We also need to win the war against MAGA that is now underway in the world.

If they sound like MAGA, Act like MAGA, Think like MAGA…. Then their leader is Poilievre Monday’s election is just the first battle in the war to save Canada

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— cleisthenesforever.bsky.social (@cleisthenesforever.bsky.social) April 25, 2025 at 8:27 PM