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“No crisis, no Mark Carney.” Five simple, unadorned words offered to Radio-Canada during his leadership campaign. Five words that say a lot about how Mark Carney regards himself, our politics, and this moment in time. Five words that also serve as a pretty fair indication of how Canada’s new prime minister views the task of transition—of selecting an office, a...
If the world was fair and Ontario was operating according to typical rules of political gravity, Bonnie Crombie would be winning. Or, at the very least, Doug Ford would be faltering.
By the measure of history, this muffled inaction is either a remarkable show of discipline or an astonishing expression of resignation. At a bare minimum, you would expect knives to hurled in the direction of the PMO. But, so far, we’ve not even witnessed the rise of ‘leader-adjacent’ mutinies.
