Mark Carney is Awesome

Category: Candidacy

  • Wondering when the vibe currency runs out

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    It’s the day before election day and my friend posted a headshot of banker Mark Carney and said that he just couldn’t get there. It would take a special kind of Liberal for him to depart from the NDP camp and Mark Carney wasn’t it. Several weeks back that same friend had posted a picture Read more

  • I don’t get Mark Carney but I think I’m ok with it

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    You know, Chrystia Freeland ran for the Liberal Party leadership too. It’s recent history, so we tend to forget it. But you must think Freeland really, really wanted it, after her long history with Justin Trudeau and then splitting with him so publicly. So, wouldn’t she be kind of pissed off at Carney now, being Read more

  • Let’s elevate the fact that Mark Carney loves and supports his kid

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    I come here angry, with a lot of thoughts and feelings I don’t know where to place. That’s why I tend to start blogs like these, because on some issues I get very stuck in a mental process, and the block is so huge I just can’t get on with my life. And I have Read more

  • Let’s talk about the dad

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    After reading that long CBC report about Robert Carney, I now feel like Mark Carney makes more sense. I get Mark Carney now in a way I didn’t before. Nothing in the report is a surprise, even if you’re like me and were not aware of Robert Carney and his apparent public statements and roles Read more

  • Let’s use that phrase: Class warfare

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    I have no question Mark Carney is the best person for Canada right now, in this moment. But I also have to deal with with this nagging intellectual argument in my head that maybe, just maybe, I’m about to get screwed. There are obvious reasons to vote for Mark Carney. We are at a time Read more

  • Let’s talk about the thesis

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    My first (and only) job in politics was working in opposition research (for that party that was neither the Liberals or the Conservatives). That’s what they called it at the time: Opposition Research. I remember one of my first training days. A woman not much younger than I showed me an internal database, where the Read more

  • Moving through the world

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    We know this about Mark Carney, because it’s often repeated. He was born in Fort Smith, NWT, and raised in Edmonton. He is the child of school teachers and went to Harvard on financial aid. He went on to Oxford, Goldman Sachs, and governorships of the Banks of Canada and England. I applied to Harvard Read more

  • Let’s talk about the moment

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    My intuition tells me that Mark Carney would like to save free trade. He was there in the UK during Brexit and he’s seen what trade barriers can do to markets that are isolated in broader regions that promote the free flow of goods. But he also couldn’t stop Brexit like he isn’t in a Read more