LEDREW: Carney doesn't fit bill as prime minister

Not a president! With the media focus on Trump and his usurping of power, making him so omnipotently powerful, Canadians could be forgiven for forgetting that we have a parliamentary system of government, so this is a reminder — we elect Members of Parliament, who elect one parliamentarian as our prime minister, who is the the leader of the party with the most seats. This prime minister selects the Cabinet, made up of ministers who administer their departments. The prime minister of Canada must be a parliamentarian, with the knowledge and experience to command the confidence of the House, and to get business approved by the House.

Mark Carney has never been elected to anything, much less the Canadian Parliament. In this time of tremendous challenges to our way of life, many of which have been brought upon us by the decade of Trudeau malfeasance, condoned by the same backroom advisers and cabinet ministers who are now advising Carney, we need someone who knows the ropes — not a beginner! Now is not the time to entrust the next four years to a neophyte who has never led even so much as a hockey team, much less a responsible government. Carney has dazzled many Canadians with his self-serving (and roundly challenged) declarations of leading Canada and Britain through difficult economic straits, and if you believe that, go ahead and believe that Al Gore was the inventor of the internet.



Yes, Canada is in need of an economic retooling, but it is thirsting for much more than that. Our society has been riven by undesirables let in by the Trudeau government who have no goal other than to render our peaceful nation a hotbed of foreign tribal dissatisfaction. Canadian values have been weakened by incompetent policy coming from those few advisers to Justin, who are still in charge of the Carney Prime Minister’s Office.

Canadian productivity is so laggard that our standard of living is below that of the State of Alabama. This is not a banking issue, but a matter of industrial policy that needs to be fixed. We need a prime minister who knows not only the nooks and crannies of parliament, but the Canadian people.

A prime minister who knows the villages and towns and jetties and rural routes of Canada, which an international banker who revelled in Great Britain would not recognize. We do not need another high-flying elitist like Justin whose priority seemed to be taxpayer-funded jets to foreign lands. But recall that Carney jetted off to see his friends in Paris and London within days of being anointed PM, by only some 160,000 card-carrying Liberal Party members.

The mayors of many Canadian cities have more voters than that! Canadians have a very democratic system of government. That needs to be retooled so the PMO does not rule absolutely. Even during the height of the Second World War, Winston Churchill was restrained in some initiatives and directions by his own hand-picked cabinet.

It was a tremendously democratic way of arriving at the best decisions. Top-down fiats imposed by the backroom are no substitute for the give-and-take of debate and discussion. Starting with Trudeau No.

1 — the Pierre Elliott era — and finely tuned by Justin and his advisers Gerald Butts and Katie Telford, it is a now a one-voice show in Ottawa, perfect for a technocrat like Carney to impose his net-zero views on a new carbon tax and mandatory electric vehicles. This usurping of the cut-and-thrust of parliamentary government cannot be allowed to continue. It has brought Canada almost to its knees.

When former cabinet ministers are told by the kids in short pants in the Trudeau PMO that their opinions wrought by experience and political capital are not worth of even a listen- — “we are in charge now” — then you know that we have a problem. LEDREW: Is Mark Carney just a more unlikeable version of Justin Trudeau?LEDREW: Liberal Party members would be smart to reject Carney Now is not the time to endorse that same kind of heavy-handed, out-of-touch, autocratic government that fails every time. We do not need the same Trudeau-chosen ministers to follow the dictates of Carney and his Trudeau advisers.

We need to allow parliament to do its job! Canada needs to be encouraged to flourish, to change its woke, anti-oil-and-gas, net-zero policies, and use its natural resources to become one of the richest countries in the world. We can do that in this election. The choice is ours.

— Stephen LeDrew is host of The LeDrew Three Minute Interview and The Stephen LeDrew Show on The News Forum RECOMMENDED VIDEO.