Never treat politicians as stars. They are not. It does not help in keeping them honest.
Althea Raj had been dancing around this for a long time. She clearly was hearing things like this from inside caucus since not long after Carney got the job but she wasn’t so direct about it in her reporting. I guess she finally just got what she needed to feel confident writing the article, but it’s hardly lightning in blue skies. There’s been no shortage of preceding rumbles.
i called this shit a year ago and this place downvoted me to hell for it https://sh.itjust.works/post/41864584
They said the same thing about Harper, and the same thing about Poilievre. Sigh. This timeline.
the same thing about Poilievre.
The question is - as ever - in a choice between the two, which is the least-worse option?
We compare carney against other candidates when there are other candidates.
Over the course of several caucus meetings now, Grit MPs report Carney lashing out at certain members when he doesn’t like the message they deliver. They include […] being told not to come to the prime minister with his concerns over the lack of federal response to Alberta’s two-tiered health care Bill 11
Klaxons should be going off in your mind.
jfc… Thanks for the article. People need to hear about this!
*edit - I’ve been thinking lately Carney’s behaviour reminds me of what Gary Stevenson describes when talking about the finance bros he worked with as a Citibank employee on the trading floor. I haven’t read his book, but in interviews, he’s said they tended to be so manipulative they’d say whatever they think their current audience wants to hear to the point of regularly contradicting themselves (I think he said because he developed a tough skin, it made him want to laugh out loud at least once), and that at times they could get very angry and abusive.
