“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.
Is Pierre Poilievre the person you want sitting across the table from Donald Trump?
Across the table? He’d be sitting beside him!
The fucking Russian embassy staff in Ottawa is working overtime for Poilievre.
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.
I hope the lack of election signs in my riding are a sign that the usual con voters are not voting con. Lots of lifers here.
“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.
While I do agree that he did help, he wasn’t very instrumental in saving Canada from that meltdown. It was the policies that were already in place at the time that prevented Canadian banks from being overleveraged, which made fixing the issue in Canada far easier than it was in the states.
Carney did help prevent a major disaster, but he also started from a far better position when doing so.
Unfortunately Harper removed all the safeguards that prevented the 2008 meltdown, so we’re as vulnerable to it now as the US was back then.
That’s exactly PPs argument though.
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Hes also just going to ignore the damage the Liberals have done the last 10 years and the fact his entire cabinet is exactly the same people?
Worst per capita GDP growth compared to the other 37 countries in the OECD, of course leading to stagnant wages for which we imported mass immigrants to artificially boost GDP, that the UN then defined as modern slavery due to inhumane living conditions. Then scandal after scandal, with even Carney himself recently avowing a person who said we should ship a Canadian tweeting in Canada to China for speaking out against the CPC. All on top of a world leading housing crisis that seems inevitable after that level of mismanagement.
Canada deserves what we get if we elect the Liberals again. More foreign funded Hereditary chiefs blocking pipelines, more debt spent on consumption and consultants to hide falling economic growth, and higher home prices as Carney himself said he would do nearly double what Harper was doing a decade ago now during an extreme housing crisis. The poor will be ground to dust and you will blame Trump as if these problems hadnt existed before his tariffs a month ago.
He also already rolled back the capital gains tax, the one good thing the Liberals did. Though it all seems so obviously staged, the fake outrage by Freeland who denounced Trudeau, but of course was happy with Carney who happened to be positioned to take over while being godfather to her son. He also just happens to get a spot on the daily show as his first appearance; call me a conspiracy theorist but we seem to be being gamed, I just hope its to create an east to west pipeline to help defund Russia and not more of the same we’ve had for the last decade.
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.
He inflated two housing bubbles, here and the UK. Then worked as a banker. Was there something Im not seeing that makes you so optimistic, I’ve never heard him speak on anything except climate change prior to this, he’s definitely never spoken out against the extreme cost of living.
I think most young people want cheaper housing, which as I said he has already said he would nearly double Harpers numbers on immigration. Seems to me he really loves bank profits.
If you think the conservatives will make housing cheaper then I’ve got a bridge to sell you. If you think the NDP has a chance to take power I’ve got another bridge to sell you.
The economy and housing are fucked all around the world, not just Canada.
Migrants will have to continue coming if we don’t want to have to face the crisis they’re starting to face in Japan and Korea with not enough young people to take care of seniors. Anyway, the alternative is leaving those people to die as we fuck up climate and the countries they live in.
Lmao this is the second time I’ve seen this Turnip guy on here, I’m not convinced that he isn’t a right-wing shill that got lost trying to find Reddit.
So who should everyone vote for?
Obviously the party that has shit the bed every time they have been in office but luckily not in the last few years
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?
The person you are replying to is an anti immigration advocate. It’s all they talk about and they’re only point in any issue.
Oh so you’re like the people who were telling others to vote third party to punish the Democrats in order to get the Republicans in power… So, how’s the weather in Moscow my man?
Yup.
why?
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?
That’s not an answer. Why do you want Poilievre sitting across from Trump? What is the upside you see to that scenario?
Sorry, that’s my answer.
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
I mean, elons a pile of garbage and can “endorse” whomever he likes. I don’t really care. It’s nothing more than a distraction. Trump “endorsed” the liberals too. Bigger red flag?
The cpc are literally wearing maga hats…
It was like one or two people. Yeah, they’re garbage. The CPC is not.
Except when asked point-blank what his position is on his party wearing MAGA gear, Poilievre refuses to address it. Silence is complicity, plus Poilievre has been doing everything he can over the past several years to ape Trump.
Second this.
