In historically Conservative Calgary Centre, I’ll be voting LIBERAL.

Voting against the Conservative Party leader Pierre Poilievre.

Elections are often a choice between who’s least bad, and PP would be terrible in defending Canada against attacks by Trump. PP has no academic nor business credibility. He’s not well known outside MAGA USA who support him. His policies have been Trump-lite for years.

I’m quite sure he’d be a lightweight in international matters. Trump and his appointees would try to walk all over him.

So far, PP has refused to get top-secret clearance so officials with the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) could share intelligence on foreign interference with him.

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I’ll be voting for Mark Carney. Various roles at Goldman Sachs. Governor of the Bank of Canada. Governor of the Bank of England.  United Nations (UN) special envoy for climate action and finance. Well known and respected as an economist.

He could have run for the Conservative Party leadership, legitimately. In 2012, Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper asked Carney—who was then governor of the Bank of Canada—if he would join the Conservative government as minister of finance. 

He completed the 2015 London Marathon in 3 hours, 31 minutes.

Carney’s wife EVEN has better credentials than PP for Prime Minister. 😀 Fox has a degree in Philosophy, Politics and Economics and a master’s degree in agricultural economics from the University of Oxford and an MA in international relations from the University of Pennsylvania.

Actually, my current Conservative MP in Calgary Centre, Greg McLean, is very good. I won’t be disappointed if he is reelected. A loyal opposition is an important part of our Westminster-style parliamentary democracy.

I wrote to tell him I had to vote against PP. No reply. 😀

Vancouver Island, where my Mom lives, will elect either NDP or Conservative representatives in 2025.

I’d vote to reelect Gord Johns of the NDP. Seems to me he’s been doing a terrific job.