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Liberal Party members have chosen former central banker Mark Carney to be their new leader and the next prime minister of Canada.

Carney secured enough votes in the first round of voting to win the job, party president Sachit Mehra announced.

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[–] novacomets@lemmy.myserv.one 2 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

There was never a chance a woman would win as leader. The Liberals claim to be feminist but have never had a female in charge running the Liberal party.

[–] TheFeatureCreature@lemmy.ca 17 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

I really don't think that had much to do with it.

It should be no surprise that during an economic crisis, the candidate that successfully lead two central banks was selected.

[–] novacomets@lemmy.myserv.one 2 points 12 hours ago (3 children)

Carney had nothing to do with Canada's economy, it was Jim Flaherty. Carney did major economic damage to England and England was worse off when Carney left. He plans to bring in more taxes if he can't increase current sales taxes plus increase income taxes.

[–] wise_pancake@lemmy.ca 8 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Doing the same job here he had no influence and doing the same job there he ruined everything?

Maybe the UK is worse off because of Brexit, an event which had really only one outcome: worse trade policies, and using less efficient industries to compete against more efficient competitors.

[–] CircaV@lemmy.ca 5 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Carney was against Brexit because it was bad economic policy for the UK to follow. They voted for it anyway twice and Carney helped them through it despite him not agreeing with it. The UK is still suffering now and is even talking about re-joining the EU.

[–] wise_pancake@lemmy.ca 2 points 9 hours ago

Yeah that's not really his fault at all, in his position I think it's expected that regardless of the political situation you see it through.

[–] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 9 points 12 hours ago

He plans to bring in more taxes if he can't increase current sales taxes plus increase income taxes.

Not sure where you're getting this from but it goes directly against what he's been saying throughout his campaign.

[–] CircaV@lemmy.ca 7 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago) (1 children)

OMG a Minister of Finance and the Governor of the Bank of Canada had entirely different jobs to do, and different roles. They worked together but had different responsibilities.

He’s going to tax polluting industries. Instead of individuals. If the country elects the Liberals under Carney it’s a mandate to try new things. What those new things are, will be decided by a guy with an education in economics and experience as a policy maker as the Governor of two major global Banks.

[–] novacomets@lemmy.myserv.one 1 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Under Carney, everything you buy will get more expensive, plus you will have less money with higher taxes. Watch what happens to your money in 3 weeks on April 1st.

[–] CircaV@lemmy.ca 5 points 10 hours ago

Please no. He’s not Trump.

[–] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 10 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) (2 children)

Freeland has polled fairly poorly against Poilievre and this is what everyone i know voted on - who can defeat him. Then there's some of the bad takes she made. She sounded austerity-ish, made some anti-woke statements which play right in the cons' hands.

[–] Sunshine@lemmy.ca 8 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Not to mention that she fiercely opposed electoral reform while Mark Carney gave a maybe.

[–] novacomets@lemmy.myserv.one 1 points 12 hours ago (3 children)

The broad Canadian public is against woke policies. People want meritocracy, not identity. Read the public polling of the amount of people who support same sex marriage, it's going down. Look at the polling numbers of the public turning against the ideology of transgenderism.

[–] CircaV@lemmy.ca 9 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Please piss off to conservative lemmy’s. Or to the US. You have no coherent explanation of what is “woke” except for maybe it’s something undefined that you don’t personally like. You don’t speak for the broad Canadian public. Stop inflecting garbage US nonsense here. We’ve had gay marriage for more than 25 years and it’s never going away.

[–] novacomets@lemmy.myserv.one 1 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

When you go outside, talk with random strangers and ask for their take on woke and check if people out in public support gay marriage. Get people;s opinion's face to face that you don't know previously, the internet is not the real world.

[–] CircaV@lemmy.ca 5 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Congrats. You’re my first block on lemmy.

[–] Snowpix@lemmy.ca 4 points 9 hours ago

They're a transphobic loser, you won't miss much.

[–] nyan@lemmy.cafe 10 points 11 hours ago

Um, dude? If you're going to pretend to be a Canadian, might be good if you studied up on Canada first.

If instead you're from one of the more disgustingly backward parts of rural Alberta, you might want to pay attention to what's been happening in the rest of the country for the last fifty years or so, with emphasis on the past couple of months.

[–] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 6 points 11 hours ago

A quick look in Wikipedia shows in 2017 support for same sex marriage stood at 74% and in 2023 at 79%. Did it fall since then? To what?