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Liberal Party members have chosen former central banker Mark Carney to be their new leader and the next prime minister of Canada.

Carney secured enough votes in the first round of voting to win the job, party president Sachit Mehra announced.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Reminder of the Liberal's record on proportional representation: "Liberals never wanted to “make every vote count.”… Electoral reform has become a bonbon offered at election. As far back as 1919, Liberals have campaigned on the promise of proportional representation"

Mark Carney's position on electoral reform: "open". However...

  1. He’s an economist, and the mathematics pairs quite nicely with the mathematics of electoral systems.
  2. His public persona is that he is intelligent. But when asked specifically about electoral reform and proportional representation, he says he’s uncertain and open to exploring options? Why would someone as smart as him be uncertain about ensuring every vote counts.
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Means he's unfamiliar with the issue, or doesn't want to take a position lol

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Given the Liberal's failings on proportional representation, I tend to think it's the latter: he doesn't want to take a position

[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

Good, but I won't sleep easily until the crypto-MAGAist Pierre Poilievre is on the ash heap of history.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

I'm gonna assume it's the 2nd option

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

There is another use of that term, but a hyphen would have helped.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago

I too will love to see the knives out for PP once he loses the general election. He’s been such a sniveling Trunp toady no other party would support his party in a minority situation . All Carney has to do is prevent a conservative majority, my guess is that Carney has the potential to do even better than that.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago

The liberals chose well!

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

So we'll likely be heading into an election in June.

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