It was an election based on "change" and "strength". Singh was running in his third election after two disappointing previous results and spent the last few years propping up Trudeau's unpopular government only to let Trudeau leave on his own accord. Not a great look.
I get what youтАЩre saying here, but Carney was acting Prime Minister after Trudeau stepped down and the Liberals chose him to lead the party, which was elected into power at the time (and still is). His first day in office he repealed the carbon tax, so technically he was the incumbent (just for a very short time period).
Right. Carney was the best possible candidate the Liberals could put forward, technically he was the incumbent, but he wasn't actually an MP and carried no personal baggage for Trudeau's decade in office (unlike Singh or potentially Freeland if she had been interim PM).
Even with that, the Liberals only won by eating the NDP vote while the Conservatives actually gained seats. Not exactly a resounding victory for the incumbent party.
I agree he was the best possible candidate and IтАЩm kind of confused how you interpreted me arguing against any of that with what I wrote. You said Carney wasnтАЩt the incumbent, he was and thatтАЩs what I took issue with as well as explaining the background of why he was the incumbent. You never specified MP in the post I responded to.
Except Carney wasn't the incumbent. In fact, the longest serving leader on the debate stage saw his party utterly collapse.
Huh, an interesting take. Since Trudeau was out of the picture, Singh got the anti incumbent treats!
It was an election based on "change" and "strength". Singh was running in his third election after two disappointing previous results and spent the last few years propping up Trudeau's unpopular government only to let Trudeau leave on his own accord. Not a great look.
I get what youтАЩre saying here, but Carney was acting Prime Minister after Trudeau stepped down and the Liberals chose him to lead the party, which was elected into power at the time (and still is). His first day in office he repealed the carbon tax, so technically he was the incumbent (just for a very short time period).
Right. Carney was the best possible candidate the Liberals could put forward, technically he was the incumbent, but he wasn't actually an MP and carried no personal baggage for Trudeau's decade in office (unlike Singh or potentially Freeland if she had been interim PM).
Even with that, the Liberals only won by eating the NDP vote while the Conservatives actually gained seats. Not exactly a resounding victory for the incumbent party.
I agree he was the best possible candidate and IтАЩm kind of confused how you interpreted me arguing against any of that with what I wrote. You said Carney wasnтАЩt the incumbent, he was and thatтАЩs what I took issue with as well as explaining the background of why he was the incumbent. You never specified MP in the post I responded to.
I didn't feel the need to put all of the caveats and context into my comment because the people who read these threads are already well aware of them.