Tag Archives: Mark Carney
Regime Change
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney can be forgiven if he feels a little bit like he has a target on his back these days. It isn’t his domestic political opponents he has to worry about. Carney has been unequivocal about Canada’s independence. It will not become the 51st US state. Nor will he back down […]
The New World Order
I wrote this post before Canadian Prime Minister Mark carney made his now famous speech last month at the World Economic Forum in Davos. It seems to me to be a worth addendum to what he said. We think the status quo will last forever. As humans we crave certainty and distrust instability. Yet instability […]
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 […]
Low Level Mischief
When the self-styled Longest Ballot Committee convinced dozens of people to run for Parliament in a federal byelection last year, I was amused. Ninety-one names on the ballot seemed a little ridiculous, but that’s democracy. As I understood it, the idea was to protest the Liberal Party’s broken promise to make 2015 the last “first […]
One Week To Go
Canadians go to the polls in a federal election next Monday. A record number turned out at the advance polls this holiday weekend. Nobody knows if that is good or bad, but it shows interest in the election. The Prime Minister has been saying that Canada faces the biggest crisis of our lifetimes. I thought […]
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 […]
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