Objectively, I like pretty much every action Carney has done so far as PM. First action was to kill the carbon tax exactly as promised - we can argue semantics about how levies still exist, but the public aspect that was deeply unpopular is no more. He's been very strong on Trump, even so much as to snub him until he acts like a grown up. He's met with several premiers individually already on a plan forward. He's acting like someone dealing with an emergency existential crisis. He may be a novice politician, but maybe we don't need a politician today. He's even gone to steel plants as a show of support (it would be nice if he addresses his recent Canadian streel debacle of a comment and promotes Canadian steel)
https://www.thespec.com/news/hamilto...5a493a4ec.html
Trudeau was a narcissist ideologist that actively divided the country. He ran a fiefdom and implemented mindboggling ideological policies like the online harms bill and turned immigration into a perceived negative. Freeland gaslighting us about vibecession, pushing carbon tax down our throats yet doing the heating oil carve out when convenient to his party. Let's not forget his plan to buy votes with complete disregard of the federal budget that suddenly has been forgotten. Only a full blown very public mutiny by his party got him to eat a bit of humble pie.
If we are to believe the party direction is mostly done by the leader, Liberals are acting like a different party right now and Carney is acting like a leader. We also saw Trudeau last month lead to protect Canada when it was most needed. I'm not convinced that the party is much different from a few months ago, but actions do speak more to me than words and the actions are solid.
I don't get the same leadership vibe from Poilievre, because he's too busy attacking
Trudeau Carney. He had the opportunity to show strong leadership at the onset of Trump shenanigans, but he chose to completely ignore the American threat to focus instead on the Carbon tax and "Just like Justin".
Had Kamala Harris won in the US, or even if we had Trump 2016 instead of what we have today, I think the CPC and Poilievre win the election in a landslide no matter what Carney did as the nationalism rush and annexation threat would not have occured and the opportunity to pivot would not have been as strong.
But that's not what happened, and one party quickly adapted to the current reality, while the party that was leading in the polls are still stuck in 2023 pretending that the US is not threatening our sovereignty. We all knew Trump was going to be chaotic in his 2nd term, but the very serious annexation threat that arose and trade war unleashed against us for us to submit, needs a strong leader with strong principles to fight it.
I have more confidence in Carney fighting Trump than I do Poilievre. Heck I have more confidence in Trudeau right now. And that's completely Poilievre's fault for acting more like a Danielle Smith than a Doug Ford. Ironically Ford has given his full support to Carney, not toeing partisan lines as there is more important matters at hand.
Poilievre is showing extremely poor leadership and choice of priorities at time when leadership is the most important value, while Carney is showing strong leadership and getting others to follow him