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For years, Western politics has been dominated by a thematic drift to the populist right, as movements surged in Canada and beyond. But with Mark Carney’s victory as Trudeau’s successor, has the liberal establishment staged a dramatic comeback? Are we witnessing a revenge of the globalists? Can Mark Carney beat Pierre Poilievre at the inevitable next election? Who is better placed to take on Trump? Marshall Auerback joins UnHerd’s Freddie Sayers for a conversation about the possible return of liberal managerialism, Mark Carney’s vision, and the future of Canadian politics.
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SubscribePoilievre is nothing like Trump. Saying so is to reinforce the Liberal’s partisan talking points.
Auerback is a Liberal shill You’ve had him on before You need a better source on Canada Carney is dishonest, conceited, and a high flying grifter I have great reservations about Poilievre but Justin Trudeau’s chosen successor will bring no end to the great shame of the Trudeau decade What’s ‘Unherd’ about Auerback He’s what we hear at the CBC and read in The Globe everyday day
At first I could find no mention online of Freddie’s “The American’s want our water….” quote from Carney’s speech, but it’s there alright…. it’s in French. ( When speaking to a national audience, politicians in this country tend to switch back and forth, a nominal nod to our ‘bilingual’ society, but a notion Quebeckers themselves will have no truck with. ) To say something so intemperate but to do it in a language not readily understood by Americans, or most Canadians for that matter, is both underhanded and inflammatory, so typical of Carney.
For let’s not forget that Carney was one of the loudest and shrillest voices of the anti-Brexit “Project Fear”. He had the same politically nosey way when he was governor of the Bank of Canada. Central bankers have always at least tried to give the appearance of being politically neutral. But not him.
After a disastrous run as Prime Minister, Trudeau’s parting gift to this country is Carney, who, to be brief and too charitable about it, is one of David Goodhart’s Anywheres, and of the sub-species Climate Fanatic.
Auerbach and the implications of Trump’s tariffs and Carney’s possible rule: “It’s going to take billions…..You can’t have small government…..You’re going to need… an Asian-like state-driven capitalism…..enhanced by national industrial policy”. Auerbach seems OK with that.
Say a prayer for this country.
Carney was a total failure as Governor of the Bank of England so I wish the Canadians all the best in their uncertain future.