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Originally Posted by Slava
I think a Carney/Polievre debate is going to be fascinating. Whether you agree with him or not, Carney is the real deal. Obviously he was both the Bank of Canada and Bank of England governor. You don’t just end up in those roles and particularly not the BoE after if you don’t know what you’re doing.
He was the first non-Briton to run the Bank of England and took them through Brexit and a piece of Covid. In Canada he was governor coming out of the GFC (2008-09) where Canada was the first country to raise interest rates coming out of that crisis.
Bottom line, is it would be very interesting to see how Poilievre fares against an outsider, who clearly knows his stuff.
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Carney is as financially savvy as it gets and certainly his financial pedigree is bar none the best that would come into parliament, but he's also an outsider, which will absolutely play against him as it did for Ignatieff. He also has never been in politics and does not have a seat. Trudeau and Ignatieff held elected seats for years before eventually becoming leader into an election. Carney is a complete unelected outsider in comparison heading into an election within months that could become PM without a seat (similar scenario was used consistently as an attack on Smith being premier in Alberta while unelected for example).
I don't understand his play for PM right now, considering it will be a considerable loss in the election. A number of Liberals including Trudeau and Telford's camp clearly want him to lead as the spiritual successor to enact Trudeau's policies and legacy, while Freeland is currently winning the hearts and mind Liberals. It may be that Liberal Party leadership rules may be why Carney is being pushed now by the Liberal core, as they may not be able to remove Freeland once she becomes leader, and who the core may see as having become a bit rogue.
https://torontosun.com/opinion/colum...clark-implodes
As for Poilievre, it honestly doesn't matter who he is is facing on the opposite side this coming election, as the incumbent is just that unpopular.
I think Carney will be the right leader for the Liberals eventually...just not while it's imploded from the inside as it is now. It makes little sense at the very moment.