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Mark Carney is the new leader of the Liberal Party of Canada
- abe94 2y agoI keep forgetting this is the same Mark Carney that ran the bank of England
- cperciva 2y agoAnd before that, the Bank of Canada.
- jasoneckert 2y agoThe speeches tonight by Chrétien and Carney were quite powerful and succinct. There were a lot of gems in there that will likely go viral on US and Canada news networks. But what struck me the most from the speeches was the strong sense of certainty that Carney is the right person to take Canada into the next decade.
- cendyne 2y agoWhat did they talk about that gave you this certainty?
- jasoneckert 2y agoBest to see it for yourself: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qv6JIMtX8Qc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qv6JIMtX8Qc
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- hn_throwaway_99 2y agoCare to explain what you mean by that?
- toomuchtodo 2y ago“Comprising the largest visible minority group in the region, Toronto is the destination of over half of the immigrants coming from India to Canada, and India is the single largest source of immigrants in the Greater Toronto Area.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Asian_Canadians_in_the_Greater_Toronto_Area https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Asian_Canadians_in_the_G...
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- ghssds 2y ago"Les canadiens et les canadiens sont inquiets du cul de la vie!" --Mark Carney. The next few years will be delightful.
- WorkerBee28474 2y agoYears? This guy's tenure will be best measured in weeks.
- tomek_zemla 2y agoWhy is that?
- WorkerBee28474 2y agoThe next Canadian federal election will be no later than October 20, 2025. Possibly much sooner. While Carney's party has seen a bump in the polls recently (thanks to Trump) which changed the predicted result from an opposition blowout to merely an opposition lead, Carney is nowhere near as good a communicator as Trudeau and will likely not do well in the polls.
- timbit42 2y agoHis opponent is a much worse communicator though and can't think on his feet.
- cyberlurker 2y agoIt sounds like the person you’re replying to thinks Carney's Liberal Party is set to lose the upcoming election. Before Trump started going after Canada, the Conservatives seemed like a sure bet to take over Parliament. But since the tariffs came into play, the Liberals have really picked up steam. No matter where you stand politically, I think Trump isn’t the best at thinking strategically. He could have waited for the next Canadian election and probably ended up with a party in power that would be easier to negotiate with. Now, things are a lot less certain, and it could even give the Liberals a chance to come back stronger. It’ll be interesting to see how it all plays out. Plus, it’s kind of idiotic that Trump pushed for the USMCA, which looked like a win for him, but these tariffs seem to go against the spirit of that agreement. It makes you wonder why anyone would want to deal with him in good faith moving forward.
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- dralley 2y agoNobody thinks this is funny.
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- rayiner 2y agoWe need people with more sense than empathy. Closed borders, criminals in prison instead of the streets, etc. I don't care that much about the S&P--I want to walk to lunch without having to dodge homeless encampments. The fundamental purpose of government is to provide an orderly, clean society for the majority, and our government has been doing a bad job of that.
- rayiner 2y agoNote that he’s only Prime Minister temporarily. He’s replacing Trudeau and will call elections soon (must be before October) and will go up against Poilievre. EDIT: Didn’t mean to suggest he won’t win the election. But he’ll have to defend the seat.
- Macha 2y agoPotentially temporarily - the tariffs and 51st state rhetoric has really shifted the polling there from an easy conservative win to a liberal resurgence
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- snapplebobapple 2y agoThat's not really accurate. What we have is one unhinged far left polster (ekos) doing very questionable thing to skew the average and some weirdness out of ipsos occasionally. You can see many of the individual polls here: https://338canada.com/polls.htm https://338canada.com/polls.htm I'm not going to bother posting the deleted twitter rants from the guy that runs ekos, but he's ruining his reputation right now because nobody will believe him after this. Carney got the new guy bump and now that people are getting to know him the polls look uglier for him each week because he's one of the architects of the policies that are so unpopular.
- dralley 2y agoEvery poll shows a massive liberal resurgence. Only a few suggest that they're currently in the lead.
- snapplebobapple 2y agoYes, I provided you a list of the vast majority of polling that has happened going all the way back to 2021. There was even a nice graph that does show the resurgence you are talking about but also mostly shows it's not anywhere near enough to change the result from conservative majority, pretty much except for ekos polling (there are some other shenanigans going on in here but they are kind of minor compared to the bold face lying with statistics ekos is almost certainly doing). This is the new guy bump to largely unknown Carney from terrible trudeau. Carney is getting known now and getting linked to all the same stupid things that pissed people off about trudeau and you will see his poll results slide every week here as that process happens. It's not going to help him that he is going to get absolutely crushed in the english debate and absolutely crushed without realizing it because his french is terrible in the french debate either.
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- karaokeyoga 2y agoHe's on the board at Stripe, by the way. https://stripe.com/en-jp/newsroom/news/mark-carney-joins-stripe-board https://stripe.com/en-jp/newsroom/news/mark-carney-joins-str...
- dsmmcken 2y agoAnd Bloomberg https://www.bloomberg.com/company/press/bloomberg-announces-new-board-of-directors/ https://www.bloomberg.com/company/press/bloomberg-announces-...
- GypsyKing716 2y agoSorry to hear this news. I don't want to spoil the party, but the bucking heads between both countries, especially as a border town dual-citizen, its only going to make living in the Canada that much more difficult for me. The US economy is 9x bigger and with a population of 45M vs. 325M+ - its crazy. Ontario dominates the political spectrum (just a point of fact, not of affiliation) it doesn't allow for collaboration across the provinces. BC and AB are booming, and Ontario just keeps stagnating their innovation trains and economic prosperity and we're likely to see this continue into the future as Toronto and Ottawa just dictate the population as a whole from a central "neck of the woods" thinking. God save the King, but at what cost?! Love you Americans. I'm sorry, we're assholes when it comes to nationalism sometimes, but its just going to be difficult for a few years for us.
- Karsone 2y agoCanada is a top 10 country by GDP, I think they'll be fine.
- GypsyKing716 2y agoYa, but we rely on so much from Sask to Montreal on border money.
- sdesol 2y ago> I'm sorry, we're assholes when it comes to nationalism sometimes Please speak for yourself, as a fellow Canadian. This is not about nationalism, but rather about not giving into a bully. If we start begging for mercy now, things will just get worst. And no, most Canadians do not fear the US invading, as many believe a civil war in the US will happen before that. We also have the luxury of having goodwill among many around the world, so selling our goods will not be an issue but we will obviously have to lower our margins to overcome geographical barriers. I just want to make it clear for any readers here that GypskyKing716 is not the voice for all Canadians, and his voice is his own, like mine is.
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- nayuki 2y ago> On that note, he announced the carbon tax would soon be cancelled. I'm super-disappointed. The carbon tax is the most effective market-based mechanism for controlling carbon dioxide emissions. The majority of economists support it, while political support trails behind significantly. Also, it's disingenuous to only focus on axing the carbon tax without mentioning that the quarterly refund to every resident of Canada will also be axed. The carbon tax is designed as a revenue-neutral program.
- icegreentea2 2y agoCarbon tax is toxic in Canada. Bashing it is like a quarter of the conservative's platform. There's an interview with the former Minister of Environment who pushed through carbon pricing (https://thetyee.ca/News/2025/02/11/Catherine-McKenna-Interview/ https://thetyee.ca/News/2025/02/11/Catherine-McKenna-Intervi... - note this is a thoroughly left leaning newspaper). She notes that she felt the government's failure to properly communicate/advertise about how carbon pricing works (and the refunds I imagine...) left the field wide open for the conservatives to own the messaging and framing. It is disappointing, but not at all unexpected.
- mitthrowaway2 2y agoFor those of us not already determined to vote conservative, the carbon tax was one of the most compelling reasons to vote liberal. It was a well designed policy, even if many people don't understand it. Since they're both axing the tax anyway, that's one less differentiator which leaves me thinking maybe I should just choose based on who is more likely to pop the real estate bubble.
- icegreentea2 2y agoFair enough. But overall polling is pretty clear (this is from Jan 2024, but I imagine it's probably pretty similar now) https://abacusdata.ca/carbon-tax-pollution-pricing-carbon-action-incentive-payment-abacus-data-polling/ https://abacusdata.ca/carbon-tax-pollution-pricing-carbon-ac... 31% say they won't vote liberals regardless of carbon tax, 23% say they won't vote liberal because of, or partly because of carbon tax, 38% says their liberal support is carbon pricing agnostic, and 8% says carbon pricing makes liberals more attractive.
- from-nibly 2y ago> Mark Carney steps into an unprecedented moment Allow me to be obtuse, and correct me if I'm wrong here, but isn't every moment unprecedented? Like, isn't that how time works?
- gnabgib 2y agoCertainly the press' use of unprecedented has precedent.
- hyperbrainer 2y agoSome things are more predictable than others. The current situation between the USA and Canada lies on the improbable side of the spectrum.
- from-nibly 2y agoYeah, but I said "allow me to be obtuse" ;)
- Freedom2 2y agoInteresting to read the perspective of Americans who don't understand that different countries have different election systems, and that Canada doesn't directly elect their PMs.
- snehk 2y agoNeither does the US (President or PM, which they don't have). ;)