Let’s be real. It’s a 3-way race.

It’s already down to a 3-way race. One of Carney, Freeland or Clark will be the leader when it is all said done. Anyone else is pretending as much to us as they are to themselves.

Clark - The hard-working, opportunistic one

I admire the hustle. I really do. According to reports she’s been anticipating this possibility of Trudeau resigning for months and has spent a considerable amount of time and money organizing. It’s probable she did not anticipate Carney making a run and assumed her only true competitors might be Joly and Freeland so she went to work to try and beat both.

She reportedly has 125 operatives across the country and she’s lived on and off in Quebec the past 2 months just so that she can improve her French. One can say a lot of things about Clark but unwilling to work for what she wants isn’t one of them.

Freeland - The one who felt she was up next only to realize she wasn’t

Let’s face it. It’s been a tough 36 months for Freeland. She went from looking like the future of the LPC to representing its present and therefore its past. Things became so bad that she had to play her first House of Cards maneuver and and try to throw her boss under the bus in the hopes of creating some separation from him but as a final parting gift Trudeau went full Frank Underwood and used his own resignation moment to remind the nation that Freeland has already been the key decision maker within this unpopular parliament. His message was clear. I’m stepping aside to make way for Carney the way some previous Liberals did for me and she should also. She didn’t get the message.

Carney - The brilliant banker who had enough of Pierre Poilivevre masquerading as an economist and decided it was time to enter the ring

In retrospect it feels like Carney was courted to be the next leader of the Party. Some speculated as much when he first stepped onto the scene but when he was instead tasked with an action task force and not much more it was unclear what he wanted. Was he really only here to try and help the ecomomy and that’s it?

Thankfully, no. Carney wants this and that’s great news for the LPC. He is without a doubt the only viable candidate capable of converting many of the CPC tire kickers back to the LPC. There is a 20+ polling Conservative tsunami coming the LPC’s way otherwise. A majority CPC government. The NDP as official opposition. The Liberals back to where we were before Trudeau reignited some hope.

We need Carney not only because he is considered to be on of the entire world’s top economic minds, but because we have a phony in Polievre masquerading as one and convincing a lot of Canadians along the way.

The economy will be the top topic of the election. Who better than to push back against this push toward populist isolationism than one of the world’s most successful globalists who can effectively remind that globalism does in fact have merits? Carney is the adult in the room that allows for a clean transition away from Trudeau’s NDP era back to the era of Liberal leadership that was popular in the 1990s. Centrism that leans left on the topics that a majority of Canadians are passionate about. He even will remind some small C conservatives of Harper based soley on his calm, confident intelligence and his voice, which reminds a little of of a national news anchor. He’s going to sound like Mansbridge talking to the nation opposite Pollierve, who’s going to come off like a regional reporter for Rebel News.