And They're Off!

The installed Mark Carney (prime minister, for lack of a better term) has called an election at the end of April.

Carney is running on the unspoken Liberal mantra: promises are made to be broken:

Prime Minister Mark Carney yesterday called a tax-time election on a promise of savings for every federal taxpayer in the nation. The measure, estimated to cost $6 billion, follows a Liberal leadership rival’s appeal that the Party “be honest with Canadians” over deficit spending: “It’s easy to say we’ll give you this and we’ll give you that, but let’s be clear: We do have a deficit.”

 

(Sidebar: the Tories promised a $14 billion tax cut. And - remember - Justin DID promise deficits and actually kept that promise.)

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Prime Minister Mark Carney said his government would give raises to the armed forces, speed up the acquisition of military equipment and grant new surveillance powers to the Canadian Coast Guard if he wins the election.

Carney, who is campaigning as leader of the Liberal Party, made the promises during an event at the Irving Shipyard in Halifax, Nova Scotia, on Tuesday. But he didn’t commit to moving up his proposed timeline for Canada to hit the NATO defense-spending target.

 

 How are you going to pay for that, Carney?

Carney must have made this stop after his turn in Newfoundland.

It did not go well: 

Meanwhile Liberal leader Mark Carney got sworn at by disgruntled Newfoundland fishermen and had to call the police. Gifted perhaps with second sight, Mrs. Carney was nowhere to be seen.

 

Also:

Prime Minister Mark Carney yesterday said he has “over-complied” with ethics requirements but again refused to disclose his investments. Carney confirmed he held stock in two multinational corporations headquartered abroad but would not sell his holdings: ‘Why not just sell your shares?’ 

 

Carney referred to himself as a "stickler for ethics".

I'll just leave this right here:

“There’s something that’s really been worrying me,” Poilievre told reporters, saying he believed Carney was too connected to China, which is increasingly seen as hostile to Canada.

“What did Mr. Carney, in his role as Trudeau’s economic advisor, offer to China?” Poilievre asked.

The Conservative leader said Carney has some explaining to do about a $276-million loan Brookfield Asset Management secured from the Bank of China last November, when Carney was pulling double duty as Brookfield’s chair and the head of then Liberal prime minister Justin Trudeau’s task force on economic growth.

Poilievre alleges Carney personally flew to Beijing for “secret talks” with the deputy governor of the Bank of China, at a time when Chinese intelligence was actively targeting Canadians inside and outside the country.

This lines up with a timeline given by Chinese Ambassador to Canada Wang Di, who said last week that Carney was in Beijing in October for a financial conference.