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Originally Posted by sa226
Typically Canada is a cycle or two behind the US, but it seems that time gap is getting tighter and tighter. With Canada being fairly prominent in the American news cycle these days, I'd say that was pretty smart for Carney to go on the Daily show. It begs the question of, if he's not going to run, whats the point? He's not even an elected official at this point.
What I don't know or understand is if a loss in a federal election is too much of a stain on a party leader. The conservatives are a scary runaway freight train at this point, so if you see yourself as the future of the liberal party, why throw your hat in the ring for an eventual loss?
But at a time when the liberal party is pretty rotten to the core, bringing in a bit of an outsider is probably a smart move.
Anything to limit the damage of the Temu Trump.
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Mark Carney was going to run for Liberal Leadership immediately after Justin Trudeau stepped down or was defeated in an election. This has been choreographed since he started posting tweets of himself on the BBQ circuit in both official languages last summer. He's 59 years old and being PM of Canada is clearly his personal ambition. There isn't time in his working years to sit this one out, run again next time, win and be PM for 10 years. He's 100% running right here and right now. I anticipate he will have the best chance of not only beating Freeland for LPC leader but also the CPC in an election.
As far as whether he can win or not in the next election is entirely if the electorate simply only hated Trudeau's personality or if they also hated his policies because Carney is completely the ideological successor to Trudeau.