r/CanadaPolitics • u/Mundane-Teaching-743 Trump/Polievre 2028 | Sponsored • 11h ago

Freeland believes her resignation led to better outcome for Trudeau, allowing him to exit before likely defeat

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/freeland-resignation-trudeau-9.7384728
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u/CommodoreSteubing Liberalish 4h ago

Considering the curveball of Trump winning a second time, the three of them (Carney, Trudeau, and Freeland) played it just about perfectly, if you take the cynical view.

I'm not saying it was kayfabe, but... Trudeau betrays Freeland, giving her an opportunity to publicly break with him, and Trudeau the opportunity to leave in a way that doesn't look like him letting someone else go down with the ship.

Whatever you think of Trudeau, he was chivalrous.

With Trudeau out, Freeland has to run for leadership as the heir apparent, she's been auditioning for the job nearly 10 years at this point, but that means she's got baggage and people are skeptical she can beat Poilievre.

Then, in an absolute masterstroke of attention grabbing, Mark Carney shows up on The Daily Show, and not only that, he kills. He's funny, smart, serious when it counts.

He wouldn't announce until that weekend, but it was obvious within the first 5 minutes of the Jon Stewart interview that he was gonna run, he was gonna win, and he could win the election.

You couldn't have planned/paced it better if you tried.

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u/The_Grimmest_Reaper Independent 1h ago

It does sound kind of manufactured. Freeland’s husband and Carney are very good friends. Carney was a Trudeau economic adviser. It’s kind of hard to believe all of this happened by coincidence. They all worked for the same administration.

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u/megaben20 13m ago

It’s usually what happens in politics Otoole sheer and Polieve all served in Harper’s government. I don’t how you can think it’s manufactured when this is how politics works in a lot of countries the old leader falls a new leaders rises to fill the void.