» LEDREW: Is Carney just a more unlikeable version of Trudeau?

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Are the Justin Trudeau enablers trying to pull another fast one on Canadians?

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If you don’t know the answer to that question already, then read on.

Gerald Butts and Kate Telford have been the close advisors to Justin since they stopped advising former Ontario premier Dalton McGuinty over 10 years ago (perhaps that experience with wasting taxpayers’ cash on useless energy projects helped whet their appetite to stop oil).

And as a result of that close association, Canadians have had to endure crippling taxes, making life unaffordable for many, in order to fulfill Justin’s dogma of weaning Canada off clean natural resources.

We know Trudeau and his cabinet ministers (yes, the same ones who are now in Carney’s cabinet) succeeded in driving into the ground the clean energy industry in Canada, leaving many countries who tried to buy our environmentally superior LNG to instead burn coal to stay warm.

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And with the Butts and Telford tag team now guiding Carney with their experience in providing good government to Canadians, should we be hoping that Carney will be anything but a more unlikeable and testy version of the prime minister we endured for the last ten years?

To those who might reply that Carney is his own man, and will not slavishly follow those Paris Accorders, then read his book – Values-Building a Better World For All – where he explains how he would change the world and weep.

And be really, really, scared.

This man wants to re-order the world, by decree.

He is dangerous.

Which brings me to another point – how is Carney an acceptable prime minister?

Yes, the tradition is that the head of the Party with the most seats in Parliament is the PM, but when Canada had 4 “unelected, fill-in PM’s” between 1891 and 1896, they were all known to Canadians, and had a record of public service, and knew how the Parliamentary system of government worked.

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Same with the great John Turner in 1984, and Kim Campbell in 1993 – Canadians knew them, and they had served with distinction in Parliament.

Only the tight Trudeau cabal knows Carney – Canadians have no idea who he really is, and he has never even been elected … ever!

Canada is governed by Parliament, and a prime minister and cabinet – not by a technocrat who cannot debate and cannot think quickly.

Not by a man who does not seem to have both feet on the ground, and arrogantly fobs off questions by declaring, “I am Prime Minister,” and therefor has no need to know of the prices the average Canadian pays for necessities.

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Canada does not have a presidential system where that president can rule by decree. That seems to be what Carney is suited for, and is in the process of setting up with his docile MPs.

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Our parliamentary form of government requires people who know how to make it produce results, people who know how cabinet works to provide well-argued and tested policies for Canadians.

We need people who know when to stand firm, and when to change their minds, so that they create moderate, thoughtful, useful and effective government that serves working Canadians, not just those who fly around the world in government or private jets, preaching how their dictates will make a better life for all.

Canada needs a prime minister who can explain, and debate, policy in Parliament.

Only then will we escape what we have been suffering under for the last decade – terrible decisions taken by backroom advisers who think they have the answers to all that ails the world when in reality they only feather their own nests and leave average Canadians suffering under terrible policies.

So the answer to the question raised at the outset of this column is, without a doubt, yes.

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