“My question to Canadians is simple: Is Pierre Poilievre the person you want sitting across the table from Donald Trump?” Carney said, referring to the Conservative leader he disparaged as a career politician.
“I have managed budgets before. I have managed economies before. I have managed crises before,” added Carney, who served as head of Canada’s central bank during the 2008 financial crisis, as well as the governor of the Bank of England when the United Kingdom voted to leave the European Union.
“This is a time for experience, not experiments,” he said.
Yup.
Are you blind to what the liberals have done to this country over the last 10 years? And who wants more WEF goons in power?
I don’t know anything about this election other than the fact that Elon Musk endorsed Pierre Poilievre, and that is a massive red flag
That’s not an answer. Why do you want Poilievre sitting across from Trump? What is the upside you see to that scenario?
My opinion is anyone but the Liberals, in order to create real world consequences for doing population driven QE. It should be a warning to all that it is a way to lose elections, since it dramatically hurts the poor and causes shortages without creating real prosperity.
We essentially inverted the phillips curve, which BoC publications say the labor shortage is a natural phenomenon after QE in order to restore the created wealth inequality from asset price inflation, so we shouldnt be trying to fill the temporal labor shortage before the Bank of Canada raises rates to cool the job market and asset prices.
But voting for Conservatives is leaning into that damage. So, surely you mean to exclude them too?
I agree that the Liberals should absolutely be put in the penalty box, as any government should after being in office for 10 years.
And still the alternative is far worse. A rudderless, directionless group with no actual policy and no interest in accountability or transparency. Worse, with instincts that mimic the existential threat to Canada’s sovereignty.
Carney is a guy that seems singularly equipped for this moment. We’d be fools not to take advantage of that.
“I’m not the other guy” will always be a weak argument
It’s easy to miss but there are other words in the quote where he talks about his experience, get an adult to help you sound them out.
“I was a banker” might not be the strong point you think it is… Especially if we’re talking about 2008, but it’d take an adult to remember that time.
Uh… do you know what contribution he made to 2008? Or are you just free associating “banks” and “2008”?
Carney’s actions as Governor of the Bank of Canada are said to have played a major role in helping Canada avoid the worst impacts of the 2008 financial crisis.
The epoch-making feature of Carney’s tenure as governor remains the decision to cut the overnight rate by 50 basis points in March 2008, one month after his appointment. While the European Central Bank delivered a rate increase in July 2008, Carney anticipated the leveraged-loan crisis would trigger global contagion. When policy rates in Canada hit the effective lower bound, the central bank combated the crisis with the non-standard monetary tool “conditional commitment” in April 2009 to hold the policy rate for at least one year, in a boost to domestic credit conditions and market confidence. Output and employment began to recover from mid-2009, in part thanks to monetary stimulus. The Canadian economy outperformed those of its G7 peers during the crisis, and Canada was the first G7 nation to have both its Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and employment recover to pre-crisis levels.
That’s PP’s ONLY argument, though.
Mark Carney actually has experience in life being more than just a politician.
Edi: I was comparing pollieve to trump…
Honestly, who the hell wants a guy who’s advocating for the removal of Canadian rights, funneling tax dollars to the rich, and is part of the same international conservative advocacy order as Trump and some other neo-Nazi fascist leaders? We see how much one bad actor can do to a nation, and while Canada has some safeguards to prevent such unilateral damage from coming into place, the Conservatives are full of yes-men who’ll just sign off anything that PP wants, so he’ll have defacto control over the parliament if he’s elected.
A vote for the Cons is a vote for a fascist dictator.
If you want to vote for a right-wing leader, then vote Carney. The liberals are center right and always have been. A fare safer and more reasonable choice than someone who repeatedly walks all over the average Canadian and says that its “for your own good”. A man who refuses to answer questions and goes back on his promises like they were just things he said while drunk on some friday bar crawl.
