Carney reminds voters why they wanted to oust the Liberals: Ivison

Article content

After Mark Carney’s press conference last Thursday, many liberals may have the same idea of ​​a contest to elect the 45th Canadian Parliament when he said the old relationship with the United States ended.

Article content

Article content

It seems that the moderate liberal leader found the last remaining telephone booth in Ottawa, from which, emerged, turned into a sober and assured prime minister.

Article content

For a brief moment, he stopped auditioning for this, and he played a mid-stage role – a luxury that is not open to competitors.

Canadians noticed. Liberal support is still rising and they will likely win a majority if the election is held tomorrow. Conservatives remain stable, but the NDP’s support is unit numbers, and Québécois also lost support for the resurrected liberals.

The voting question is clear at the moment: Who is better to deal with the threat posed by Donald Trump?

As long as Trump is nearby, tariffs are likely to be with us, as Bloomberg showed in an interview with Presidential Economic Adviser Chairman Stephen Miran, who provided their intrinsic implications for this administration. He said American consumers are “flexible” and have the option they can buy, while countries exported to the United States are “inflexible” and have no other markets. “They are the ones who will bear these tariff burdens, which means there will be limited spread to downward economic risks or higher prices,” he said.

Article content

The president showed on April 2 Liberation Day and the Wall Street Journal that he was pushing his advisers to be more aggressive with the new tax.

So far, in the movement, more tariffs mean more anxiety, which translates into more support for liberals.

But success can cultivate complacency, and complacency can breed failure.

The entire liberal project depends on one’s credibility, and Carney only creates valuable goods by defending what many Canadians consider to be irrefutable.

In January, Paul Chiang, a liberal candidate in Markham-Unionville, Greater Toronto area, told the Chinese Language Media Conference that Joe Tay, a conservative candidate in Don Valley North, had a bounty of $184,000 because he advocates for democracy in Hong Kong, anyone can claim it through Tay Tay to Chinese in Toronto.

Article content

Article content

Chiang did not deny that he made a comment and apologized to Tay, calling his words “regretty”.

But they are more than that. This shows that the Liberal Party’s attachment to Beijing is out of reach.

Obviously, China has long tried to cultivate nominations for people who sympathize with Beijing

For Carney and his team, this should have been effortless – an open and closed cross-border suppression case. Over the years, all parties have removed candidates for the most ridiculous reasons – remember the guy who was driven away by a conservative after being pissed off by a coffee cup while pissing on camera? The former police officer clearly recognized foreign intervention in the Canadian diaspora community, and his party should be condemned by his party and then abandoned.

Article content

However, Carney said Tsing Ang will continue to represent Markhamville’s liberals because he is a “integrity person” who serves the community and retains the confidence of leaders. “I think it’s a teachable moment,” he said.

He would regret this decision. Given that confirmation of confirmation will remain in place in his message of the day, it is a major housing announcement that he may have become the site.

Hogue public inquiry, which ended in January, heard from Justin Trudeau last spring that feared liberals put partisan interests outside of national interests and turned a blind eye to China’s intervention in the 2019 and 2021 elections. According to media reports, liberals chose to ignore the information provided to them about former Tanggu northern MP Han Bang, who won the liberal nomination with the help of a bus from paid Chinese international students.

Article content

Trudeau briefly gave a brief overview of security services concerns, but concluded that the threshold for the nomination process was not met.

Obviously, China has long tried to cultivate nominations for people who sympathized with Beijing and was busy in the last election to ensure that conservatives were defeated and the Liberals were elected.

Former conservative leader Erin O’Toole told the commission of inquiry he believes his party lost nine seats due to China’s false information.

Carney’s decision to keep Chiang on the team will restore the entire controversy and remind people why they should get rid of the liberals in the first place.

The chances of conservative leader Pierre Poilievre defeating Carney on who can best handle Trump’s issue look far away, although they may improve if his behavior is not as good as the president’s performance. The conservative leader joked on a Trump-like, late-night social media on Sunday that Carney committed burglary, tax evasion, rejecting dying coal miners, witchcraft, cannibals and insurance for meeting Satan. (I exaggerate – but not too much).

Article content

But Poilievre still has some cards. He refused to call on his campaign to face Trump at a press conference in New Brunswick on Monday, saying he will continue to focus on issues that affect families and older people’s affordability. “I will continue to talk about these things despite the call to the contrary, even if I am the only leader in the country to offer any change,” he said.

Even though anxiety about Trump predominates voters, change remains a powerful message.

Abacus Data’s latest poll shows that 54% of voters still want to change the government and that the prospect of a fourth free term remains frustrating.

So far, Carney has effectively used himself as the agent of this change. He seems to convince some voters to pass him and they are changing the government.

Article content

But he just reminded them that he was and seems to be a party leader, and it is too close to China’s values.

As a New Democratic candidate in eastern Vancouver, Jenny Kwan condemned Tsing Ang’s intimidation: “In what universe is this normal?”

jivison@criffel.ca
twitter.com/ivisonj

Getting deeper national postal political coverage and analysis in the inbox of the newsletter with political hackers, Ottawa Bureau chief Stuart Thomson and political analyst Tasha Kheiriddin are all behind the scenes behind what actually happens every Wednesday and Friday. Register here.

Article content