*|FNAME|* 🇨🇦 on Nostr: I don’t see how that invalidates my hypothesis; neither situation is mutually ...
I don’t see how that invalidates my hypothesis; neither situation is mutually exclusive. You’re bang-on in that Freeland is super-fiscally conservative, she was dead-set against the GST holiday/$250 bribe plan and refused to put her name to the financial report—presumably because she felt that she wasn’t it’s primary architect. I suspect Carney’s fingerprints were all over it.
My thinking is that the Party understood at some point that the Trudeau brand had become toxic and they needed to find someone to replace who could be a foil to Poilievre, but they felt that Freeland wouldn’t test well with voters. So, like you said they needed to find someone with the financial chops to please the deficit hawks, but who would also be more palatable to voters. The miscalculation in this, I think, is overestimating Carney’s ‘celebrity’ power; he may be well known in the financial arena but I’d bet that the majority of Canadians have no idea who he is.
My thinking is that the Party understood at some point that the Trudeau brand had become toxic and they needed to find someone to replace who could be a foil to Poilievre, but they felt that Freeland wouldn’t test well with voters. So, like you said they needed to find someone with the financial chops to please the deficit hawks, but who would also be more palatable to voters. The miscalculation in this, I think, is overestimating Carney’s ‘celebrity’ power; he may be well known in the financial arena but I’d bet that the majority of Canadians have no idea who he is.