LPC leadership race - 2025

[dapaterson]

Blackadder has the definitive version of the rotten borough story.

 

[OldSolduer]

I love the outright lies both sides tell. Talk about division - one side is no better than the other.

Both sides are cultish in their approaches.

 

[Jarnhamar]

His home town of Fort Smith might be up for grabs

It sounds like the current MP has a lot of ties and history in the local area compared to Carney just being born there. Makes sense to oust McLeod, and the Progressive Liberals likely won't object to this guy being replaced by a rich white banker.

 

[Remius]

It sounds like the current MP has a lot of ties and history in the local area compared to Carney just being born there. Makes sense to oust McLeod, and the Progressive Liberals likely won't object to this guy being replaced by a rich white banker.

I thought I heard he was not running again

 

[Grimey]

I don't think the LPC handlers will allow that.



It sure didn't take LPC partisans to get their old arrogant swagger back again. That is what really pisses me off about these guys. They think that the LPC is Canada and all others do not have the right to have any say in the direction of the country.

If Carney wins the election I predict nothing will change in this country. No renewal of the Public Service, no real change in foreign and defence policy, a scattering of big project ideas that go into the perpetual study cesspool, and a continued control of government by a small cabal of UoT, McGill, and Harvard grads who are the great grand sons and daughters of Desmarais Group Executives!

But tell us how you really feel, Decks!

 

[Jarnhamar]

I thought I heard he was not running again

You're right. Looks like he said he wasn't running again back in July 2024. That works out well for him. Carney just has to talk about his roots, make some promises, and he's locked and loaded.

 

[Remius]

You're right. Looks like he said he wasn't running again back in July 2024. That works out well for him. Carney just has to talk about his roots, make some promises, and he's locked and loaded.

Fairly safe liberal seat as well.

 

[Remius]

I like boring competent managers a la Harper.

Carney would be that if not for his being another Butts/Telford/Chin meat puppet…

Rumour is that Marco Mendenccino is on deck to be his COS.

 

[FSTO]

Rumour is that Marco Mendenccino is on deck to be his COS.

Ohh boy!

 

[RangerRay]

Ohh boy!
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Took the words right out of my mouth!

 

[brihard]

Rumour is that Marco Mendenccino is on deck to be his COS.

A visible “so long and good luck” to the Telford crowd would probably be a help to Carney’s campaign.

 

[mariomike]

Readers may, or may not, wonder why there are not more women in Canadian politics.

If so, they may find this article on the subject of interest,

The Canadian Press

March 8, 2025

Threats, harassment and online hate driving women out of politics, MPs warn​

Threats, harassment and online hate driving women out of politics, MPs warn - National | Globalnews.ca

Liberal leadership hopeful Gould says that harassment has worsened, particularly on social media and through threats to her constituency office.

globalnews.ca

Women in politics: Why are so many leaving?

Vocal about the misogyny and threats she faced during her time in government, she wants public safety officials to take these threats more seriously.

Regarding aggression in Canadian team politics, my RMT, who is from Japan, shared her point of view on the subject,

It's common courtesy. Something Canadians used to be well known for.

 

[brihard]

Mendicino as an interim chief of staff during transition is confirmed.

https://www.cbc.ca/amp/1.7479519

 

[Jarnhamar]

Rumour is that Marco Mendenccino is on deck to be his COS.

The minister who lied to Canadians about the RCMP telling the government to use the Emergencies Act is the new "temp" chief of staff.

It's a perfect fit considering Carneys promise to use the Emergencies Act in the future.

 

[PuckChaser]

Nothing says outsider like making an insider your Chief of Staff.

 

[Remius]

The minister who lied to Canadians about the RCMP telling the government to use the Emergencies Act is the new "temp" chief of staff.

It's a perfect fit considering Carneys promise to use the Emergencies Act in the future.

Yes. Same guy.

 

[lenaitch]

You're right. Looks like he said he wasn't running again back in July 2024. That works out well for him. Carney just has to talk about his roots, make some promises, and he's locked and loaded.

For somebody who is destined to be PM, it's a bit of oxymoron. Wherever he is from or currently resides, during his term he will never live there and have precious little time to represent the constituents there.

I love the outright lies both sides tell. Talk about division - one side is no better than the other.

Both sides are cultish in their approaches.

If we elect a CPC government, we may well get the same thing of a centralized PMO run by partisans and everybody else treated like trained seals. There is really little incentive to change it. The guy you shill for is the guy that keeps you in power.

 

[OldSolduer]

This coronation reminded me of the “free elections” in nations ruled by despots.

 

[dapaterson]

Mark Carney is not under a consent decree from Elections Canada.

 

[Kirkhill]

Testimonial from another satisfied customer

Canada is about to discover Mark Carney is the man with the reverse Midas touch

The ‘rock star’ former Governor of the Bank of England has left a trail of destruction behind his glossy jobs

www.telegraph.co.uk

If politics was simply a matter of CVs, then Carney would be Roosevelt, Churchill and De Gaulle rolled into one. He is perhaps one of the most qualified men ever to take charge of one of the West’s major democracies. A Goldman Sachs banker by training, he served as Governor of the Bank of Canada, before being persuaded by George Osborne to become the first foreigner to run the Bank of England. Since then, he has distinguished himself as the leader of the Net Zero Banking Alliance, as a UN Climate Change Envoy, as chairman of the asset manager Brookfield, and of the financial news giant Bloomberg. He was, according to Osborne when he appointed him, “the outstanding central banker of his generation”.

But the truth is rather less glamorous. Over eight years at the Bank of England, Carney was at best an indifferent Governor, and, at worse, a disappointing failure. Despite his huge salary of more than £600,000 a year, more than any of his predecessors had been paid, he seemed to have little feel for the role. The City quickly nick-named him “the unreliable boyfriend” for his constant changes of direction on interest rates.

He printed too much money in the wake of the financial crisis, and then repeated the mistake all over again in the wake of the referendum on leaving the EU, responding as if he was in the middle of a financial emergency instead of dealing with a minor blip in trading relations. At the same time, regulatory standards were allowed to slide, and the City started to lose its role as one of the major global financial centres, with over-complex rules deterring companies from listing their shares in London.

By the time he left office, Carney had created a mess which his successors have struggled to clear up. Inflation spiked up to a peak of 11.1 per cent in the UK, compared to 5.2 per cent in France, or 8 per cent in Italy, hardly a country known for controlling prices effectively, largely because the Bank had printed too much money.

Even worse, he politicised the role (Governor of the Bank of England), taking sides on the Brexit debate as one of the main authors of the ludicrously over-blown “Project Fear” when it would have been far better to remain neutral, and then using his authority to endorse Rachel Reeves as Chancellor in a high-profile intervention just before the last general election, praising her energy and vision (a decision he surely regrets, since even many Labour MP’s now concede privately that Reeves has proved hopelessly out of her depth). Time and again, Carney has proved himself a man of high intelligence, but remarkably poor judgement.

It has not gone much better since he left the Bank. Over the last year, his Climate Alliance has started falling apart. Created in the wake of the COP26 conference in Glasgow, it was designed to mobilise the power of private capital to pour hundreds of billions of dollars into accelerating the shift from fossil fuels to renewable energy. Yet in January this year, the Financial Times described the Alliance as “unravelling” as a series of major banks including JP Morgan Chase, Goldman Sachs and Citibank pulled out.

It truly would be nice if he had the ability to mobilize the power of private capital to grow Canada in a hurry.

Carney is the epitome of a remote, globalised, technocratic elite. He is very good at self-promotion, at collecting trophy jobs, and of course negotiating fabulously generous salaries and expenses for himself along the way. He is just not very good at delivering.