Fairvote Canada

A lot of people in my social media feeds are thinking of voting Liberal in the coming election. Mark Carney seems like a safe bet and the fear of a Pierre Poilievre victory in the Trump era is frightening. If your main issue is the best person to deal with Donald Trump, he is probably that. I understand.

Carney seems trustworthy and kind. He says he understands that private industry is good at creating wealth but not so good at protecting vulnerable people in the process. Unfortunately, it’s not 1990 anymore and the idea that providing private corporations with tons of government money and tax cuts will produce wealth for everyone has been thoroughly discredited through lived experience. What it has produced is massive wealth, all of which is concentrated in the one per cent or more likely the 0.1 per cent and more and more suffering by the poor and the working class. The result is Trump and Elon Musk and the other authoritarians and fascists gaining ground around the world. And Mark Carney as the head of the Bank of Canada and the Bank of England as well as a senior executive in important private equity companies has been part of the problem not part of the solution.