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LPC leadership race - 2025

Carbon taxes are small beer. If the overall "climate emergency" policies are going to result in the same outcomes (eg. projects delayed or denied), and the social programs are going to stagger on as an expanded suite of underfunded entitlements that are wins for people lucky enough to secure qualifying positions and losses for people who are merely chumps paying taxes to support others, and fiscal policy is continued overspending, nothing is going to improve.

Fewer set-tos with female MPs and less sunny ways grandstanding aren't going to really improve Canada's long slow slide in living standards.
 
Did either of them say drop the carbon tax? I thought they said change it.


Seems like it. Devil is in the details though.
 


Seems like it. Devil is in the details though.
I look forward to the CPC pivot since “Axe the Tax” and JT are no longer a thing.
 
He’s likely the most qualified on anything regarding the economy. For fiscal responsibility types he will be a draw.
Economics isn't much of a science, let alone an engineering discipline. What does "qualified" mean? Has an education and has run a business? Many people fit that. Econ profs talk about economics and models, but no-one is capable of predicting outcomes well enough to reliably set policy. Central bankers try to manage a very limited mandate (ie. keep inflation rate in a particular range) and have difficulty achieving even that.
 
Economics isn't much of a science, let alone an engineering discipline. What does "qualified" mean? Has an education and has run a business? Many people fit that. Econ profs talk about economics and models, but no-one is capable of predicting outcomes well enough to reliably set policy. Central bankers try to manage a very limited mandate (ie. keep inflation rate in a particular range) and have difficulty achieving even that.
Economics is a part of social science, not “hard science” like physics, chemistry, etc. Hell, even with more “hard science” stuff people get it wrong all the time - like meteorology.

As for qualification, I’d say he has done the most in the economic realm out of the candidates. Being a Central banker isn’t exactly an entry-level position.
 
Economics isn't much of a science, let alone an engineering discipline. What does "qualified" mean? Has an education and has run a business? Many people fit that. Econ profs talk about economics and models, but no-one is capable of predicting outcomes well enough to reliably set policy. Central bankers try to manage a very limited mandate (ie. keep inflation rate in a particular range) and have difficulty achieving even that.
I’ll take him over any populist.

He did a good job as a central banker in two countries. His record stands.

Given the CPC blaming inflation on Trudeau and the Governor of the Bank of Canada, Carney seems to be quite the upgrade.
 
I look forward to the CPC pivot since “Axe the Tax” and JT are no longer a thing.
Agreed on axe the tax but my roulette chip would go on the “double down on the Trudeau Clone narrative” square. It’ll be interesting to see where the Blue info-machine takes things.
 
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