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    2 days ago

    He’s got my backing, I like the idea of more technocracy, and his financial background is what Canada needs in this moment.

    Of course I need to hear now if his ideas, but I think Freeland would be putting the LPC into the same position of irrelevance that the OLP is now in post Wynne.

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      I think Freeland has a good head on her shoulders, and I hope she enters the race if only to hear her ideas, but Carney has the electoral advantage of having nothing to do with the Trudeau government.

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        I don’t dislike her, but I don’t think she has any chance of forming a government or becoming the opposition.

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          I think you’re probably correct - she’s got a lot of baggage simply by virtue of having served in the government.

          Nonetheless, I think it would be good for the party to have a serious leadership race with at least a couple of legitimate contenders.

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        The carbon tax carney conservative ad nauseam would go into overdrive with him.

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          Maybe, but he didn’t have anything to do with this carbon tax, and his Jon Stewart interview seemed to hint that he feels some changes might be in order there.