He says Carney's long residence outside Canada and the collapse of the Conservative challenge indicate that Canadian electoral politics is staged theater among paid actors rather than a genuine national contest.
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Canadian Election
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He contends that Trump's public threats against Canada boosted Carney from behind in the polls by letting Carney present himself as the leader who could stand up to Trump through British and establishment ties.
He further argues that if Trump had stayed quiet, Carney would have lost, so Trump's anti-Canada rhetoric may have been functionally coordinated with the outcome it publicly opposed.
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"Then he went to Bank of England. And he was the first and only foreign citizen to be governor of the Bank of England...."
"Yeah. Listen, listen. Carney was way behind the polls. Then Trump starts to threaten Canada, right? And then Carney shoots up in the polls..."
"Yeah. So I mean, the reality is if you just look at the elite of Canada and America, there aren't that many. And they're..."
"...Okay. But like one data point is more like during the Canadian elections, Mark Carney was the liberal candidate. And Donald Trump said, hey,..."
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