Isn't Carney basically following the Klein playbook from the early 90s?
Oh, you didn't like the previous guy and his policies? Okay, we'll get rid of them.
Oh, you like the things the other guy is promising but don't want to vote for his party? Okay, we'll promise to do all of those things, but we'll do them calling ourselves the party you want to vote for.
When Klein became the PC leader, they looked like they were dead in the water as Albertans were sick of them after the Getty years. Six months later, they won another healthy majority.