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Haha Jen Gerson gets it (A):
Ladies and gentlemen, I give you: Mark Carney
Of course, many will see the St. Paul's election as an imminent sign of Justin Trudeau's departure as Prime Minister. I can't rule that out, but I'm not inside the Liberal partisan mindset well enough to rule it in, either.
If Trudeau is going to leave before the next election, he is rapidly eating up runway for his successor. As a sheer matter of practical logistics, he needs to leave this month — or early July at the latest — to allow the party enough to both run a leadership race, and build enough profile and goodwill for his replacement. It's going to be a slog, and frankly, I can think of only a few individuals who possess the strong professional credentials and total lack of political savvy to volunteer to be as popular as Michael Ignatieff and as doomed as Kim Campbell.
It's Mark Carney.
That's it.
Ladies and gentlemen, I give you: Mark Carney