LPC leadership race - 2025
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They went with status quo: rich white dude with bay street connections.
daftandbarmy
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GK .Dundas
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That's a good question ,for all the harping I do on the average person's lack of understanding of the Parliamentary system. I'm embarrassed to say I'm not sure...
But as I say I'm not sure .
Pardon me while I go off and google for awhile.
I suspect however if they might just hold off on a full blown election and settle for the status quo and just call a by election in a safe riding
But as I say I'm not sure .
Pardon me while I go off and google for awhile.
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The Liberal Party only exists to feed the Liberal Party.
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Carney, Messieurs Desmarais, etc…
MilEME09
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Here's his speech
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Read Mark Carney’s full speech after becoming Liberal leader
Sunday marked a pivotal moment in Canadian politics with Mark Carney taking the reins as the new leader of the Liberal Party. He addressed Canadians in his first speech as party leader, reflecting on the challenges facing the country and the values that would guide his approach to leadership...
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…at least there was a qualified referral to energy (assuming he didn’t just mean nuclear, solar and wind…)Here's his speech
Read Mark Carney’s full speech after becoming Liberal leader
Sunday marked a pivotal moment in Canadian politics with Mark Carney taking the reins as the new leader of the Liberal Party. He addressed Canadians in his first speech as party leader, reflecting on the challenges facing the country and the values that would guide his approach to leadership...
PrairieFella
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I think the conventional means comment was referring to O&G. Say what you will about Carney, he is supremely qualified to manage a G7 economy, he knows where our bread is buttered.
If the Liberals lose the election, don’t expect Carney to hang around long. he’ll go back to the board rooms. That’s where the money is. Then the Liberals will again need to pick a new leader.
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Except we don’t need a manager as the head of government.
A head of government needs to be more a leader than a manger.
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I like boring competent managers a la Harper.
Carney would be that if not for his being another Butts/Telford/Chin meat puppet…
I think that transcript was provided by the party, and I think he ad libbed a bit that's not in the transcript - I'm 100% certain that in the actual speech he said "A plan that makes Canada an energy superpower, both clean and conventional". I believe he added the "both clean and conventional" bit on the fly. He knows that's a political vulnerability of his and that he needs to throw some reassurance out to oil and gas. Right at the end he also talks about mines, ports, and logging roads. He was definitely mindful of the resource sector in his speech.
Based on the content of the speech, I'd be very surprised if we don't have an election called very soon. He's clearly trying to capture a couple different sources of energy: fending off Trump, but also whatever it is that has driven a significant enough swing in popular support away from Poilievre. If he can actually catch that and hold it he may have a chance. I don't see any realistic way it makes sense to wait much at all.
To clear up the lingering questions about who's who in the zoo: Mark Carney is the leader of the Liberal Party of Canada, but is not yet Prime Minister. Justin Trudeau announced that he would resign as Prime Minister, but he has not yet. He is still the Prime Minister as sworn in by the Governor General. By convention that role goes to the leader of the party commanding confidence in the House of Commons, but it doesn't pass automatically in an instance like this. Once Trudeau formally resigns, then, also by convention, the new leader will be sworn in as PM. As he does not currently have a seat in the Commons, it'll be a rare but not unprecedented case of a Prime Minister leading from the gallery- save for the likelihood that Carney will ask the GG to dissolve Parliament and call an election so that he can try to earn a seat and a mandate. I don't know if he'd make that ask the same time as he's sworn in, or if he'll look to meet with cabinet first. Won't be long though.
I'm curious what seat he'll run for. And, however this plays out, I suspect we'd best prepare ourselves for another minority government of one colour or another.
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Perfection. My main reason I want MMPR is it'll ensure we never have a majority government again. Compromise forces moderation at either of the spectrum.
I tend to see it that way too. I've been thinking for a while that I want to see a minority government following the next election; just not sure yet which colour I want leading it.
Should the next election go blue, Poilievre will probably have his work cut out for him if he has to govern with a minority. I don't get the sense that achieving consensus across party lines is likely to be a strength of his.
