Mark Carney (Trudeau Liberal Replacement) as PM

Ron in Regina

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Sometimes you can please nobody none of the time…
Then you’re forced to pick a lane.
 

Ron in Regina

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MPs of different parties often don’t have constituency offices for short periods of time. The reasons are usually straightforward and completely understandable, including moving locations and hiring new staff members. The matter is typically resolved quickly.

This hasn’t been the case with Carney in his riding of Nepean. All politics is local, as the old saying goes. Carney, who thinks more on a global level, doesn’t seem to recognize this.
 
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MPs of different parties often don’t have constituency offices for short periods of time. The reasons are usually straightforward and completely understandable, including moving locations and hiring new staff members. The matter is typically resolved quickly.

This hasn’t been the case with Carney in his riding of Nepean. All politics is local, as the old saying goes. Carney, who thinks more on a global level, doesn’t seem to recognize this.
He hasn't opened an office because he thinks he doesn't need to. After all, he's not "into" Canada at all. He's "into" more $$ for himself & his buddies - screw Canadians. He's an extremely dangerous man.
 
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Ron in Regina

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Mark Carney’s first 100 days as prime minister are over, and according to the electorate he’s doing a fine job. An Abacus Data poll from this week found that the approval ratings for both Carney and his government are in comfortably positive territory. A Leger poll on Friday showed much the same trend: 56 per cent of respondents approved of Carney, and would readily grant his Liberals a majority if given the chance.
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What’s less clear is precisely what voters think Carney is doing well. Not only has Carney made little to no material progress on any of his core campaign promises, but many of Canada’s economic fundamentals have been getting worse.
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Mark Carney’s first 100 days as prime minister are over, and according to the electorate he’s doing a fine job. An Abacus Data poll from this week found that the approval ratings for both Carney and his government are in comfortably positive territory. A Leger poll on Friday showed much the same trend: 56 per cent of respondents approved of Carney, and would readily grant his Liberals a majority if given the chance.
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What’s less clear is precisely what voters think Carney is doing well. Not only has Carney made little to no material progress on any of his core campaign promises, but many of Canada’s economic fundamentals have been getting worse.
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Yup he is doing a bang up job .
 
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Ron in Regina

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Carney has made clear on many occasions that he isn’t a fan of being questioned, but, unless the prime minister refuses to show up to work, Poilievre will be there waiting to pounce, providing news reporters with regular punchy, quotable attacks.

It will much more difficult for Carney to defend obviously poor decisions such as his controversial statement that he intends to recognize Palestine as a state in September based on conditions that are not likely to be met that “Hamas must disarm; and that Hamas must play no role in the future governance of Palestine.” Carney hasn’t explained why a terrorist organization would suddenly choose to disarm after 18 years… for Mark Carney.

The real test will ultimately be public opinion, and Poilievre’s record of tearing apart Liberal policies will ensure September Parliament will be a trial by fire for Carney.

The prime minister’s polling numbers won’t remain positive indefinitely. Despite a survey from early August showing Carney’s approval rating at a somewhat-positive 56 per cent, only 36 per cent of Canadians seem to think the country is heading in the right direction.
 

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Carney has made clear on many occasions that he isn’t a fan of being questioned, but, unless the prime minister refuses to show up to work, Poilievre will be there waiting to pounce, providing news reporters with regular punchy, quotable attacks.

It will much more difficult for Carney to defend obviously poor decisions such as his controversial statement that he intends to recognize Palestine as a state in September based on conditions that are not likely to be met that “Hamas must disarm; and that Hamas must play no role in the future governance of Palestine.” Carney hasn’t explained why a terrorist organization would suddenly choose to disarm after 18 years… for Mark Carney.

The real test will ultimately be public opinion, and Poilievre’s record of tearing apart Liberal policies will ensure September Parliament will be a trial by fire for Carney.

The prime minister’s polling numbers won’t remain positive indefinitely. Despite a survey from early August showing Carney’s approval rating at a somewhat-positive 56 per cent, only 36 per cent of Canadians seem to think the country is heading in the right direction.
I read that the latest poll shows the Conservatives in the lead for the first time since the election.
 

Ron in Regina

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Ron in Regina

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A Mark Carney-led government will immediately remove the consumer carbon tax and instead, create a system of incentives to reward Canadians for making greener choices, such as purchasing an energy efficient appliance, electric vehicle, or improved home insulation…but…what if we’ve already done all that (except for purchasing the electric car, which is just beyond our means)???
Prime Minister Mark Carney announced wide-ranging new measures to support Canadian industries most heavily impacted by U.S. tariffs such as agriculture, steel, aluminium and autos as well as reviews of controversial Justin Trudeau-era climate policies on Friday.

This time last year, the Justin Trudeau political deathwatch was just starting, and it seemed possible that Kamala Harris’s politics of joy would sweep Donald Trump back into history’s big beautiful diaper pail.

But only six months ago, a newly re-elected Mr. Trump was braying that Canada as a nation was a cute idea that existed only in our own little hoser brains. Every time he made another tariff pronouncement, it was an all-day emergency; the effects on Canada’s economy were unknown, but presumed to be catastrophic.

That national panic would propel Mark Carney into the Prime Minister’s Office and the Liberals to a wildly unlikely comeback. And the cost-of-living rage rocket Pierre Poilievre had been riding to a 20-point polling lead – everything that election was supposed to be about – sputtered and fell out of the sky.

Mr. Carney was, to an almost comical degree, a man who found his moment. And Mr. Trump was the villain who created the hero. Carney remains prime minister, having only assumed the role in early March following Justin Trudeau's resignation.
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But now, as Parliament nears its first day of school on Sept 15th nd the Conservative leader, newly by-elected, finally gets to go toe-to-toe with Mr. Carney in Question Period – it’s become clear that, as often happens on summer holidays, a lot has changed.
Jean-Marc Léger, president and CEO of Leger Marketing, told reporters that U.S. tariffs have fallen out of the No. 1 worry position they’d been occupying in recent months; that issue has slipped to fourth, behind inflation, the cost of living and access to affordable housing on Canadians’ rankings of their most urgent concerns.

“If government fights against tariffs, citizens fight against inflation,” he said. Mr. Léger explained later, in French, that it was “a surprise” to the cabinet to hear that Mr. Trump’s tariffs were less top-of-mind now.

His colleague, Sébastien Dallaire, executive vice-president of Eastern Canada for Leger, framed these reordered priorities like a logical next stage.

“We move from a context of being very afraid of what was coming from Donald Trump, the threats of tariffs, to now we’re kind of past that to ‘What does it mean for me? What does it mean for me as a Canadian to go through all of this?’” he said.

So the crisis that flipped Canadian politics upside down and caused voters to turn en masse to Mr. Carney and his otherwise reviled party in the spring now feels significantly less pressing to people, so now what?

And the affordability issues Mr. Poilievre has been hammering the government with for the past three years – to the point that he was loudly criticized for missing the real election campaign – are now at the top of the list again, so again, now what?

The election was fought along strange and stark terms. Without the Trump tariff threat, there would probably be no Prime Minister Mark Carney. If affordability and Liberal fatigue had been the operative questions like they were supposed to be, then Mr. Poilievre would be in that office today, sitting astride a fat majority.

But instead, Mr. Carney is there, swept in by one bizarre, loud, dire problem for which he seemed to be the perfect answer to that fear and panic with his “elbows up” and now with his hands full of a bunch of others.
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Now we’ve got the Liberals, again in power for their fourth consecutive term, for potentially the next almost four years, again in a minority situation.
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bob the dog

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Seems to be a trend with the Liberals holding most low population density ridings.

They've already clawed back half of the carbon tax cancellation savings we saw at the pump. Back to $1.46 / L again and motor oil is expensive as well.
 
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petros

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Seems to be a trend with the Liberals holding most low population density ridings.

They've already clawed back half of the carbon tax cancellation savings we saw at the pump. Back to $1.46 / L again and motor oil is expensive as well.
Nope, not political. A big US refinery went down and two others shuttered permanently.