There’s a broader strategy at work here, too. By letting his opponents expose the smallness of their politics, Carney’s will start to look bigger by comparison. This might not satisfy the Liberal partisans in his midst, although after he saved their party from political oblivion they almost certainly won’t push back very hard. But it will look good to the sort of middle of road Canadians he’ll need to win the next election, whenever it comes — the ones who largely abandoned the party near the end of Trudeau’s leadership.
I know we’re in the honeymoon period of new leadership, but there’s no evidence for any of this. Fawcett is just projecting what he’d like Carney to do and this article is mostly just gushing over our new PM rather than an attempt at ensuring that we’re supplied with any factual information. I expected better from the Observer.
factual information on the plans of our 1 week old government?
Maybe give it a couple more weeks before demanding such a thing
Um, no. The job of a journalist is to report facts, or at the very least conjecture based on evidence. The claims above are presented without either.
Precisely… how do you want facts on short and mid term plans for a government that is 1 week old?
What you are asking is for speculation which is not great for the journalists nor the public.
The article above is, to boot, an opinion piece so you are asking the horse to bark like a dog and saying it’s a bad dog when it cannot comply