Mark Carney to launch bid for the Liberal leadership in Edmonton on Thursday
Mark Carney to launch bid for the Liberal leadership in Edmonton on Thursday
Just another policy wonk who probably won't win. Hadn't worked classically.
He's got my backing, I like the idea of more technocracy, and his financial background is what Canada needs in this moment.
Of course I need to hear now if his ideas, but I think Freeland would be putting the LPC into the same position of irrelevance that the OLP is now in post Wynne.
I think Freeland has a good head on her shoulders, and I hope she enters the race if only to hear her ideas, but Carney has the electoral advantage of having nothing to do with the Trudeau government.
I do not support any person who has not been elected by Canadians becoming Prime Minister of Canada, regardless of who that person happens to be.
A PM's resignation should automatically trigger a Federal election, not allow any member of the ruling party with $350,000 and a few hundred signatures a chance to take over without one.
Our system is fundamentally different than the presidential republic that the yanks have, you do not vote for the PM, you vote for your rep. The PM is the person with confidence of the house, which often is the plurality party leader, but there's no requirement of this at all, there's history of the PM not even being an MP in Canada, two of them were senators who took office after the PM died.
Your MP is your voice, tell them to vote non confidence if you truly feel that an election should be called, I feel fairly safe to say however that once parliament resumes we're going to see that happen anyhow and the writ dropped shortly thereafter or the PM asking to GC to dissolve parliament.
That's why you aren't supposed to be voting for the person as prime minister's, you are supposed to vote for the party you think will best represent you and your local representative within that party.
Like it or not, we don't technically vote in a PM in Canada. We vote in a local candidate, who represents a party, and that party is in control of the party leader. So realistically, very few Canadians are ever actually voting for the person who is designated PM. But don't let that stop you from getting upset.
The Leader of the party controls the platform and messaging of potential MP's. Meaning we vote for the Leader of that party and their platform, not the person representing them locally.
This is why the Conservatives lost under Sheer and O'Toole, while leading in the polls under Poilievre.
If it was all about the person at a local level why have their been so few independents elected? Are they all ignorant and incapable? Why do good MP's get voted out when the Leader is messing up if it was about the local MP's? Why are their so many "Fuck Trudeau" flags? Where are all the "Fuck -My local Liberal MP-" flags? Why is Pierre always talked about instead of the local Conservative MP's? Why is it all about Singh regarding the NDP when so many MP's in the NDP work their asses off locally?
Realistically, the majority of voters vote for their preferred Party and that Parties leader without ever knowing or caring who their local MP is.
No one is expecting Carney, or anyone else, to serve as an unelected PM.