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Mark Carney says it's 'no time for politics as usual' as he launches campaign to replace Trudeau (www.cbc.ca)
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Carney, 59, kicked off his campaign to take the reins of the governing party at the Edmonton-area hockey rink where he learned to skate as a boy while growing up on the Prairies.

"I'm doing this because Canada is the best country in the world, but it still could be even better," Carney said.

The Harvard-educated Carney said he has the economic bona fides needed to steer Canada through a period of uncertainty as the country stares down president-elect Donald Trump and the threat of punishing tariffs on all our goods.

Carney said Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is the "worst possible" choice to put on the other side of the negotiating table with Trump.

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[–] HellsBelle@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Thanks for the info. Went looking for more data and found this hellishness instead.

https://globalnews.ca/news/10946614/liberal-party-new-leader-who-gets-to-vote/

“Unlike Australia and the United Kingdom, Canada does not criminalize interfering in nominations, leadership races, or any other political party process,” the report said.

The report said foreign actors have tried to target leadership races in the past, and “allegedly interfered in the leadership races of the Conservative Party of Canada.”

(Dennis Molinaro, a professor at Ontario Tech University and former security analyst with the government of Canada), said the Liberal Party’s mechanism to elect a leader was “terrible” since it left the door open for foreign agents who might try to influence the leadership race with the least resistance.

[–] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

Things are moving fast. They tightened it up a couple of days after this article. Currently it's 14+, citizen or PR and registered by Jan 27th. Here's the reg page. You don't have to give them money. I don't think they can check if you're another party member. If I was worried about that, and was a member of say the NDP, I'd cancel my existing membership, register, vote, then cancel and reregister with NDP.

[–] tleb@lemmy.ca 1 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

I registered with Alberta NDP last year, does that affiliate me with the federal NDP at all?

[–] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 1 points 16 hours ago

Good Q. I wouldn't think so but could be wrong.

[–] HellsBelle@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 day ago

Sweet. Thanks again. :)