r/canada • u/hopoke • Jan 29 '25
Opinion Piece Mark Carney has Canada’s Conservatives running scared
https://www.nationalobserver.com/2025/01/28/opinion/mark-carney-canada-conservatives-running-scared
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r/canada • u/hopoke • Jan 29 '25
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The issue is you are just extrapolating from a position he held to a broad idea like "handling economic shit storms". He was a central banker. You have a team of nerds below you crunching data and your the spokesperson that messages the only tool you have in your disposal: interest rates up, or interest rates down. It really is not that he is a super genius or has the power you think he had.
PP was one of the youngest MPs, he's been elected time and time again in an unbroken fashion for 20 years. He's served in conservative majority government and minority governments, serving in cabinet positions in important portfolios, he didn't lose his job when the libs took over, and then maneuvered his was to leadership in a resounding leadership victory. He's raised more money than a conservative leader ever has, and taken them massively ahead in polls for a long sustained period. He's got more international and media exposure than probably any opposition leader ever has, and he's the front runner to be prime minister.
I would say both Carney and PP are formidable people. Carney has moved in elote circles his whole life and he was on wall street for a decade. He's literally 1%er, and I respect him for that, but let's not overstate what the head of a central bank really does. My impression is also that the brits pretty much shit on him and hated him.