Is this good? For you guys? I hope so. Canada is now the guiding star.
this post was submitted on 09 Mar 2025
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He has a PhD in Economics and was the head of the Bank of Canada and more recently the head of the Bank of England. So yeah……can’t think of a better resume to navigate us through a trade war.
Worth noting he was head of Bank of Canada during the 08 crash and was pretty widely lauded for navigating it so well. So he's proven himself in a crisis.
Would I prefer someone further left? Of course, but as long as we live in a market economy we may as well have someone knowledgeable about it and who has at least expressed a desire to make it more fair.
Bank director as prime minister...
This will be bad in the long run.
No, he pushed mass immigration, in order to derive what he calls economic growth as we trade homes back and forth for ever larger sums, as zoning and developer fees prevent new development.
Housing and rents doubled in 10 years as we did 4% population growth and bought 50% of mortgage bonds, all as he was a Liberal advisor. He's a champaign socialist like our NDP, and we have no real worker parties left.
If your rents doubled while your population increase was only 4%, it sounds like immigration wasn't the issue, now was it?
Blaming poor people for the housing bubble is like blaming a fish for the rain. Look up.
Oh. I'm sorry. I guess then pay attention as to how trump's story goes. I don't know now how it's going to go. I hope to be dead by then.
Id guess it knocks over Canada's housing bubble they built, and we have a lost decade like Japan due to trillions in misallocated capital.
Its mainly full recourse loans as well, its incredibly irresponsible to do mass immigration and stoke demand to distort the market. Its almost like they wilfully broke our country to push climate policy, I can't see any other way to explain it.
4 days ago in a conversation with Trump Trudeau said he didn't know when the elections will take place in Canada. Trump immediately jumped to the conclusion that "Trudeau is using the tariffs to stay in power" and raised a big public stink about it, not once realizing that what Trudeau meant is that the date of the elections (which will have to happen before October of this year no matter what) was completely out of his hands because he was about to step down as prime minister. How the fuck did Trump not know that? It's not like it was a secret or anything. Everyone knew Trudeau was going to step down today except him.
Wanna bet Trump will be once again confused by this transition and will call it a "coup" now?
Trump is a paranoid, manic, narcissist. So he thinks he knows everything, and everyone is out to get him.
He’s also a fucking moron, end of.
Canada’s new PM is a banker with no political experience—what could possibly go wrong? Clear reporting but lacks deeper analysis of Carney's potential strategies.
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Carney was governor of the Bank of Canada during the 2008 crash, and did so well that Canada climbed out of the recession/depression quicker than most other nations.
He then went on to become the first non-UK citizen (since the 1600s) to lead the Bank of England during the Brexit crisis. He advised Boris Johnson to not go through with it, but Boris decided to anyway. Many believe that is why the UK has, until recently, held onto a relative economic stability -- but even now are also discussing trying to rejoin the EU.
I watched Carney back in 2008-09 when he spoke to Parliament ... he didn't lie, he never waffled on the possible dangers we faced, and he worked hard to pull us through.
He is a different kind of man, and a different kind of economist. He'll do great as our PM.
Carney’s economic record is stellar, but governing demands more: public trust, coalition-building, and political foresight.
His leadership during the 2008 crash and Brexit showcased technical brilliance, yet these roles lacked the messy compromises of politics. Advising Boris Johnson was impactful, but it’s not equivalent to leading a nation divided by ideology.
Integrity matters, but so do adaptability and vision—qualities Carney hasn’t demonstrated in the political arena.
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I really hope he does well! His past history in banking and financial sector should help in the tariffs situation.
American here. I’m jealous.
don't be jealous bb
Quit showing off.
-usa
Sweet. Now you got 7 months at most to make enough of a difference for people to keep you in power. Otherwise it's maple maga millhouse
Congratulations. Now give us proportional representation, or step aside.
Lol, what you think the conservatives will give you this?
I think there are bigger fish to fry right now.
This guy has legit, real-world experience. He has accomplishments out there ass.
Let’s see if he has what it takes first.
And right now? There are bigger issues at stake.
Y'all, I live in the US. Listen to this. We had the same shit conversation with Harris. How many people I had to tell this "A vote is not a valentine, you're not professing your love for the candidate,. It's a chess move for the world you want to live in."
Yes, I'll agree our Dems can suck, and I'd love someone else... but for the love to my neighbors up north, don't do the same dumbass move the US did and go "Eh, they're not good enough" and bring in someone who's a terror.
Last I checked this was a Liberal leader race, not a Conservative race, chum. And it was the Liberal party that promised this. Independent of anything else going on, that promise is still on them.
How we vote is meaningless, if we wind up being a 51st state.
I WANT proportional rep. But, again, bigger fish to fry right now.
Carney might be a wartime PM. I hope he does what Churchill did. Churchill declared himself Minister of Defence when he was PM of England. Carney should declare himself Minister of Finance as well as PM. He’s qualified.
You're right & if people don't listen then I have a feeling Canada will end up a lot like America now under Trump.
I also heard it was no takesies backsies too, so you got the libs good.
Prop Rep: that thing no boomer will ever understand.
Ah yes. Nothing says man for the people like an international bank leader.
Maybe it's time we let people who know how to handle an economy run countries? It's not like the alternatives have been that great so far.
Jesus fuck thank you.
I don’t want an administrator or mechanic removing my appendix.
I hate that he’s the best option now and I am actively working to dismantle and replace orphan crushing capitalism, but at least he has a resume that is worth hiring for the job. Singh just hasn’t been very effective.
I would never let toddlers near my oscillating saw nor Poilievre near the Bill of Rights. Everyone who knows Skippy hates Skippy.
He'll handle the economy in favor of the rich.
The real weird part is he quit Brookfield's ESG department to be the PM, and one of his only policies announced so far is to replace the carbon tax with a foreign emitters tariff style tax, and to allow them to buy carbon credits from company like Brookfield.
Which is known to be no more than greenwashing, as we are still the only county in the G7 without high speed rail, and he also supports mass immigration from low emitting country. Then there was talk of letting Brookfield manage Canadian pension system, its all very fishy.
Again, it almost another binary race
The alternative is Polievre.
Take however long you like and decide which you'd prefer between the two. Don't trump us.
We need a better economy and a way to fix things with Trump. This is a prime minister for at least until the elections in October 2025, could end before
Why do we have to fix anything with Trump? The dumb cunt has blacklisted Switzerland as having "unfair trade", and has alienated Mexico, China and Canada ... and that's happened in less than 7 weeks!
Within 4 months he's gonna have a shit ton of nations solidly against him, and the embargos will start happening.
Fuck him and everyone who supports him. They can rot in hell.
"Fix things with Trump" can mean anything including back the American people in overthrowing him.