February 6, 2025
None of the gathered party members seemed eager to press Carney on how he would accomplish any of the things he said he would do, nor did they ask for particulars. No one seemed even remotely curious. It was a room buzzing with blind trust for the long-time leadership hopeful, a room of Liberal MPs and supporters who didn’t seem at all interested in why they were in such a desperate state in the first place, a room looking for a saviour.

Redistribution Carney announces he is Trudeau 2.0

At Toronto meeting with Liberal faithful, he talks up the same environmental pablum as the man he hopes to replace

Saturday afternoon, Liberal MP Nathaniel Erksine-Smith held a small gathering at Beaches Brewpub in Toronto’s East end so that his special guest Mark Carney could make an “announcement” to the Beaches-East York community. Carney was given the rockstar treatment by this small crowd that gathered in the east of Toronto to see him — it was pure adoration.

This “perfect alternative to Justin Trudeau” may as well have been Trudeau 2.0. His speech lacked any specific policies for his supporters to wrestle with, just the same vague grand promises we’ve come to expect from the Liberal party the urgency of an economy based on “sustainable” environmental policies. The was no acknowledgment whatsoever of why their party is in dire straits — just a plea to continue to support them while their ships sinks with the same unpopular ideas.

The emcee for the event asked the crowd, “Can we give everyone a round of applause for just being here?”

He continued, “I think we’re all here because we want renewal in our party, in our government, and I can’t think of a better place and person to help us lead that way.”

Erksine-Smith, MP for Beaches-East York, and newly minted Minister of Housing, Infrastructure and Communities, took the stage to say repeat this claim: “We have an opportunity in this leadership race, we have an opportunity in our politics, to renew our politics, to renew our party.”

Judging by his short speech it seems like Carney will, indeed, be positioning the party for renewal, if by renewal he simply means resuming the party as was.

Erksine-Smith told the crowd that he supports Carney because the “shallowness of our politics is unacceptable” — it wasn’t clear whether any of that criticism was towards his own party, but it’s doubtful — and because Carney is “committed to economic and environmental sustainability.”

“Especially when we face the threat of tariffs. There’s no better person than the person standing beside me to stand up for Canadian interests.”

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