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The Old Is New Again
Am I the only one who has noticed that Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney sounds a lot like former Conservative PM Stephen Harper? Not in terms of his policies, but in his branding. Carney, who took over from the much despised Justin Trudeau, has taken to calling his administration “Canada’s New Government.” The Liberals have […]
The Big Risk
Looks to me a lot like hubris, that excessive pride in your accomplishments. Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney has called a federal election for April 28. I think his Liberal Party is going to lose, and, if it does, Carney will enter the history books as Canada’s shortest serving Prime Minister. Probably not how he […]
The Next Prime Minister
I’m a little surprised. I had expected the Russians (or the Americans) to hack into the Liberal Party’s computers and disrupt the leadership vote that was to choose a new leader for the party, who would become the Prime Minister designate. The announcement that Mark Carney would inherit Justin Trudeau’s crown was somewhat anti-climactic. The […]
The Liberal Messiah?
He’s selling himself as an outsider, despite being one of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s closest advisors. He’s never run for public office, but thinks he can save the Liberal Party from self destruction if he is given the too job. Mark Carney is the favorite to win the party leadership, become Prime Minister and lead […]
The Vacancy
Suppose nobody wants the job. Then what do they do? That’s not going to happen. There will always be someone with an ego big enough to take a chance, some person who believes that they are different and that the public opinion polls are wrong. And if the polls are correct, well, the history books […]
Stepping Down
In the end, he stayed true to form. It isn’t his fault. None of it. Justin Trudeau was looking forward to contesting and winning the Canadian federal election scheduled for later this year. He’s a fighter he says; he wanted to win, he thought he would win. Instead he is stepping down as Liberal Party […]
What Political Crisis?
Sometimes you have to wonder if politicians, once elected, forget sone of the basics of human interaction. How else can you explain Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau ‘s latest, self-inflicted crisis, one that pundits are saying could be the nail in his political coffin? One week ago today Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland resigned, hours before […]
The End of Summer
The vernal equinox was Sunday, and for Justin Trudeau the end of summer couldn’t come too soon. Canada’s Prime Minister had a horrible summer, but doesn’t seem to understand why. As Parliament rose for its summer break the Liberals lost a stronghold Toronto riding in a by-election, one that had been held by retiring former […]
The Deal
Do not put your trust in princes, in human beings, who cannot save. – Psalm 146:3 Somewhere I have a half-finished post from 2022 that I never got around to sharing here. In it I quoted Psalm 146, warning NDP leader Jagmeet Singh not to trust the Prime Minister, who had just made a deal with […]
Building A Cabinet
Media reports say that Justin Trudeau will shuffle his cabinet today. Some under-performing ministers will be demoted and others removed completely. He is reluctant to make these changes of course, because the necessity for them makes him look bad. In November 2015, just before Trudeau appointed his first cabinet, I offered these thoughts. They are […]
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