Commentary
It could be worse. There were no voting irregularities, the turnout was high, and all the leaders spoke graciously on election night.
Justin Trudeau had moved the Liberal party so far left that the NDP had become redundant, and the voters recognized that. No one can dispute that it is a substantial achievement for a party to win four consecutive, almost full terms. This has only happened three times before and was accomplished by the country’s greatest prime ministers: John A. Macdonald, Wilfrid Laurier, and the combination of W.L. Mackenzie King and Louis St. Laurent.
Mark Carney crowns a remarkable career, and while I have been critical of the liberties with the truth that he has taken (hardly unprecedented among politicians), and some of the representations of his performance in previous roles, he has come from socioeconomic and geographic obscurity meritocratically to confirmation in the country’s highest office. He deserves not only respect for his career success, but the best wishes of all Canadians for success in his great office….