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What is the point of calling him a banker? What agenda are you pushing? Have you even thought about it? Or are you just mouthing dog whistles for fun?

Because whether the have-never-been-a-workers-party Liberals are left-wing or not today really has nothing to to do with Carney's resume, so you're pushing some kind of billshit.

Prove me wrong.

This isn't a debate, and you're clearly here just to be a pain in the ass. Why don't you find something better to do with your time?

You phrased things in a way that can easily be read to infer that this was new for HBC, and you fucking well know it. There's absolutely no reason to be a smug prick about it.

Look, in their defence, they're wasted too

An economist who studied at Harvard and Oxford then.

I know you understand that that's not inherently a bad thing, either. I know this because you, rightfully, point out

you won’t become governor of a central bank or a C-suite at Brookfield assets management by being a left wing economist

So, why all of the wildly intellectually dishonest labeling? Why is "banker" being thrown around, when it's not true? And why is the follow-up "PhD economist"?

Dude worked for Goldman Sachs, and y'all are trying to get your panties in a bunch over his doctorate?

That's kind of pathetic, weak sauce, dude.

Littering LEO with space junk just so you can see the booba faster out in the sticks is not the forward thinking stance you want to believe it is.

Killing terrestrial astronony while, and potentially ending spaceflight, because we're too lazy to propey invest in terrestrial solutions and just want the billionaire wankers to control everyting is a self own.

especially not with a banker at its helm

Everyone understands that central banks are not "banks", right? The Bank of Canada and the Bank of England are not, in any meaningful way, similar to the Bank of Nova Scotia.

Mark Carney's work history includes some regular ol' bogey men of the financial sector, but for some reason they never come up. Intead, it's this weird conflation of "Governor of the Bank of Canada/England" and "banker".

Dude oversaw monetary policy for nations during times of national and global financial disasters, not stock portfolios.

They just want more money.

This may be true of the Alberta government, but the Albertan people are a more complicated duck.

There is a very real current of Albertan Exceptionalism running through the province, with a narrative that Albertans are more rugged, more industrious, and more capable than people from other parts of the country, and because of this there is the pervasive belief that Alberta is undercelebrated by Canada.

Albertans believe that they are better than the rest of us, and that because of that they deserve our tribute/ and they deserve to lead.

Alberta is JD Vance: The Province

Now, why was Musk able to get the Saudis and others to help him bankroll that purchase?

“Mr. Carney is not a businessman.

Is he claiming to be?

Do we want him to be?!? There's a couple of business men in charge down south, and... No fucking thank you!

Could not imagine that we’d get a Liberal party leader who thinks in terms of market realism but not blind worship of the free market, who is both an insider who understands how the world economy works but also how it has failed people. Someone who is focused on results and not process, someone thoughtful and intelligent. Someone who has said the things that I’ve been screaming into the void for a decade — but saying it better.

This is all really important for political insiders to understand. Carney resonates, at least in part, because he's actually telling us it as it is: Market economies have hurt us, but market economies are our current reality.

Personally, even as someone who does not believe markets are good tools for most things, I cannot avoid the reality that we cannot unplug ourselves from the global markets. We cannot engage economically with Europe, the United States (blech), South America, Asia, or anywhere else without playing the market game.

We are currently trapped.

We have to play the game. If we want to get out of it, we need to carefully position ourselves within it first, and then make reforms internally. And for those who don't want to get out of it, we should still be doing whatever we can to limit the damage those with market power can do.

This is where the NDP has fallen flat: they make proposals that ignore market realities, knowing that they will never see the light of day, while their meaningful moves clearly acknowledge that we're beholden to the markets. It makes them look both stupid, and weak. It makes people discouraged and distrustful.

Carney knows what he's doing. Some of us may not like that he won't do more than what the leader of a second tier world power is capable of given the current nature of the global economy. Some of us may not like that he may not want to change the nature of the global economy. But even if he did want to, he can't on his own.

But where he can punch above the weight of the nation is in restructuring our place in the global economy, moving us closer to countries we should probably very much want to be more like, and away from ones we've been far too comfortable with for far too long.