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Carney, 59, kicked off his campaign to take the reins of the governing party at the Edmonton-area hockey rink where he learned to skate as a boy while growing up on the Prairies.

"I'm doing this because Canada is the best country in the world, but it still could be even better," Carney said.

The Harvard-educated Carney said he has the economic bona fides needed to steer Canada through a period of uncertainty as the country stares down president-elect Donald Trump and the threat of punishing tariffs on all our goods.

Carney said Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is the "worst possible" choice to put on the other side of the negotiating table with Trump.

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[–] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 15 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

If he advised fiscal response to COVID, then he did incredibly well in my view. Everyone I know who lost their jobs survived on CERB, didn't lose their homes and returned to work once they were able to, often to their previous jobs since many businesses were able to survive without work too. Something that in any previous crisis management scenario from the 20th/21st century would have resulted in massive unemployment, business die off, evictions and so on. You know, give money to the banks and wait for it to trickle down. I don't know if Carney had a hand in this but if he did, hats off.

The inflation response wasn't so great but that was our friend Tiff Macklem through and through. The fact that most governments fight inflation with interest rates alone is stupid. The fact that we don't empower labour to get wages to catch up afterwards is worse. Had Carney anything to do with the rail and postal strikes breakups? I don't know. I'm waiting to hear more from him on labour and wages.

The carbon tax is an insignificant contributor to prices but either way he's already said he's gonna kill it. So has Freeland. The carbon tax is almost certainly dead under any future LPC gov. PP made sure of it.