(Freeland and Liberal House leader Karina Gould are also expected to launch their leadership bids in the next few days)
As former finance minister Chrystia Freeland prepares to launch a Liberal leadership bid, a source close to her says scrapping the controversial consumer car...
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“….could be problematic?” Seriously?
All mainstream media outlets,
CBC, Global News and others were allowed into the media event. Independent outlets
True North and
Counter Signal were also banned.
Mark Carney is such an “Outsider” that high-ranking members of Trudeau’s team are involved in Carney’s forthcoming leadership bid. (He will
reportedly launch his campaign on Thursday in Edmonton.) Toronto Sun columnist Brian Lilley
wrote on Jan. 11 that “former top advisor Gerald Butts is part of Carney’s campaign team while others close to Trudeau, including Trudeau’s chief of staff Katie Telford, are making calls on Carney’s behalf… and that much of the PMO staff is behind Carney as well.”
So…Carney is…what to Trudeau, Telford, Butts, etc…? An outsider?
It’s also worth mentioning that Diana Fox Carney, who is Carney’s wife, is a
senior advisor for the Eurasia Group, a political risk consultancy group whose
vice-president is…Gerald Butts.
Carney first
advised the Trudeau Liberals in 2020, when he helped out with Canada’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic. He even
became a special adviser and chair of a Liberal Party task force on economic growth last September. There’s obviously nothing illegal (kind of scurvy, but not illegal) about this, but he’s hardly on the outside looking in.
Nothing has really changed with Carney’s knowledge, ability and political IQ in roughly four years. His leftist ideology, which includes massive
support for environmental policies like net zero climate solutions,
building a sustainable world economy,
tackling wealth inequality, and
declaring the radical Occupy Wall Street protests were “entirely constructive,” is likely still the same. What has changed is the dire circumstances that the Liberals currently face, and he knows it.
When you put everything together, Carney is actually a political “insider,” not “outsider.” He’s misrepresenting himself to both the Canadian public and an American TV audience.
After years of Trudeau’s mediocre, ineffective and delusional leadership — and terrible policies that hurt the Canadian economy and our reputation on the international stage — the Liberals are looking for any possible means of political survival. Even someone as potentially catastrophic, and very much on the inside, as Mark Carney.
Carney first advised the Trudeau Liberals on their economic response to COVID-19 in 2020, and became a special adviser and chair of their economic task force last September
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(Mark Carney is a Liberal Outsider like Kristy Clark didn’t have a Conservative Membership)
Freeland is expected to announce a leadership bid in the coming days. She has
already garnered caucus support from Health Minister Mark Holland, Fisheries Minister Diane Lebouthillier, three out of five Randy’s, Ben Carr, Hedy Fry, Kevin Lamoureux and Julie Dabrusin, among others.
A majority of Liberal ministers, however, have not weighed in on who they might support in a leadership bid, ‘cuz it’s not like the clock is ticking or anything…as Trump takes office in 3 days, & Canadian Parliament is prorogued for this Liberal goat rodeo.
At least 30 caucus members have weighed in, most endorsing either former Bank of Canada and Bank of England governor Mark Carney or former finance minister Chrystia Freeland, the presumed front-runners in the race.
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