Mark Carney becomes Canadian Prime Minister
By McGill’s illustrious class of 1994 is officially no longer in charge of a G7 country:
In a blowout win, Liberal Party members have chosen former central bank governor Mark Carney as their new leader and the next prime minister of Canada.
Carney, who does not hold a seat in the House of Commons and has never been elected, secured more than 85 per cent of the points — handily winning on the first count. He also dominated in all 343 ridings, showing he has Liberal support across the country.
While Carney was long perceived as the front-runner, even his camp was surprised by the resounding results Sunday evening.
The intraparty rallying around a moderate candidate is presumably strongly related to the external threat that has turned what was looking like a historic blowout into a marginally competitive election:
Holding the Tories to a minority government is probably more realistic than winning outright, but even that would be a near-miraculous comeback.
This ad was on near-constant rotation on Hockey Night in Canada yesterday:
Poilivere will probably stagger over the line but right-wing “populism” (;)) is obviously not the play it seemed to be when he got the nomination.