So far he’s killed a capital gains tax increase, killed Nobel prize winning environmental policy, and forced striking labour back to work.
He’s not even a *progressive* conservative, he’s just a conservative who eschews the culture war bullshit.
Right wingers in Canada still full of victimhood, not even aware that they won.
Nate33322 on
I’ve never quite understood the Carney is a PC narrative. Carney doesn’t represent traditional Progressive Conservatism. As for most of its history (outside of progressive conservatives brief dalliance with liberal-conservatism during the mid 80s & 90s which sunk the PCs), the PC brand has been dominated by more traditional Tory types (federally anyways). Carney doesn’t fit the traditional Tory mould he’s a classical liberal if anything.
So I really don’t get what the media’s obsession with tying Carney to the PCs. As the only PCs Carney shares a lot of similarities with are liberal-conservatives like Mulroney, Charest and McKay who have a legacy of killing the PCs. Besides the mythical socially liberal, fiscally conservative voter base doesn’t really exist as a large voter base outside of pundits and some wealthier Canadians.
Routine_Soup2022 on
Good article. I would refer to Carney more as an “Everyman” that a wide swath of people can identify with in Canada from left progressives to progressive conservatives. He’s got people on both edges of the political spectrum who firmly disagree with him of course, but that’s politics in a democracy. Because I tend to be a centrist, he fits just about with where I am politically.
Tiny-Albatross518 on
He’s smart.
Canadians are centrists. He moved right in and occupied that balanced center ground. Trudeau was struggling to hang on, too far left. Poilievre was struggling to gain ground, too far right. Carney came in just like goldilocks oatmeal, just right.
islandheart43 on
I’ve always felt the Liberals were progressive conservative. Am I just nuts? Or is that normal? Either way it’s whatever, just don’t torture trans people.
Sir__Will on
> The policy shift from the far left to the broader middle is so clear under the current government
There was nothing ‘far left’ about Trudeau! That’s disingenuous as hell. Even at the start but certainly towards the end as he went more and more to the middle.
Carney is centrist *at best*. Center-right really, in most ways, especially in any way that involves money or spending.
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So far he’s killed a capital gains tax increase, killed Nobel prize winning environmental policy, and forced striking labour back to work.
He’s not even a *progressive* conservative, he’s just a conservative who eschews the culture war bullshit.
Right wingers in Canada still full of victimhood, not even aware that they won.
I’ve never quite understood the Carney is a PC narrative. Carney doesn’t represent traditional Progressive Conservatism. As for most of its history (outside of progressive conservatives brief dalliance with liberal-conservatism during the mid 80s & 90s which sunk the PCs), the PC brand has been dominated by more traditional Tory types (federally anyways). Carney doesn’t fit the traditional Tory mould he’s a classical liberal if anything.
So I really don’t get what the media’s obsession with tying Carney to the PCs. As the only PCs Carney shares a lot of similarities with are liberal-conservatives like Mulroney, Charest and McKay who have a legacy of killing the PCs. Besides the mythical socially liberal, fiscally conservative voter base doesn’t really exist as a large voter base outside of pundits and some wealthier Canadians.
Good article. I would refer to Carney more as an “Everyman” that a wide swath of people can identify with in Canada from left progressives to progressive conservatives. He’s got people on both edges of the political spectrum who firmly disagree with him of course, but that’s politics in a democracy. Because I tend to be a centrist, he fits just about with where I am politically.
He’s smart.
Canadians are centrists. He moved right in and occupied that balanced center ground. Trudeau was struggling to hang on, too far left. Poilievre was struggling to gain ground, too far right. Carney came in just like goldilocks oatmeal, just right.
I’ve always felt the Liberals were progressive conservative. Am I just nuts? Or is that normal? Either way it’s whatever, just don’t torture trans people.
> The policy shift from the far left to the broader middle is so clear under the current government
There was nothing ‘far left’ about Trudeau! That’s disingenuous as hell. Even at the start but certainly towards the end as he went more and more to the middle.
Carney is centrist *at best*. Center-right really, in most ways, especially in any way that involves money or spending.