第二个原因跟很多 CFCers 想法一样啊。Carney能力很强,而且很务实,连干两届没问题,PP 领导的保守党可能真的至少要等8年,10年了。
Reason number two has to do with Pierre Poilievre, who Carney wants you to think is his adversary. But he isn’t. After blowing a 30-point lead, losing an election that was in the bag, and then getting the pink slip in the riding he’d held for two decades, Poilievre is someone Carney really, really wants to keep around.
So, when a reporter asked Carney about accommodating Poilievre’s desire to run in an Alberta seat where a fence post painted blue could win in a landslide, Carney was all magnanimous and whatnot, and said he’d do what he could to grease the wheels of democracy, blah blah blah.
I was impressed by his acting skills, on that occasion. If there’s anybody who really, really — REALLY — wants to keep Pierre Poilievre around, it’s Mark Carney. But he didn’t show that. He was sort-of lowkey about it, and the commentariat predictably ran around saying how refreshingly prime ministerial he was. But that’s nonsense: Carney gave himself a big gift, and he tricked everyone into thinking he was being a charitable nice guy. Clever.