Juno News - April 25, 2025


Mark Carney awkwardly compared himself to Trump at a Quebec photo op


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2 minutes

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188.2712

Word count

473

Sentence count

32


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Bank of Canada Governor Mark Carney makes a campaign gaffe that will go down in history as one of the most cringe-worthy moments of the election campaign. Why did Mark Carney compare himself to Donald Trump?

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00:00:00.000 I think Mark Carney had a bit of a campaign gaffe. That's what I would call it. Earlier this week,
00:00:04.280 he went to a poutine shop near Granby, Quebec, and he said that he was just like Trump. And he
00:00:12.200 joked several times that it was like Trump at McDonald's. I don't know why he would compare
00:00:18.220 himself to Trump during the last week of the campaign. I think maybe he was joking and he
00:00:22.640 thought it was funny. This isn't really the comparison that you want going into election
00:00:27.040 day, like, look at me, I'm going to do a photo op just like President Trump did. I thought that
00:00:32.080 when President Trump did, it was quite charming. And that actually really helped his appeal that
00:00:36.460 he actually kind of likes getting into the role of like, being with the American public,
00:00:41.760 working a working class job, he thinks there's dignity in it. I didn't get that from Mark
00:00:46.140 Carney at all. I felt like it was just kind of awkward. And literally, their entire campaign
00:00:51.340 attack ads in this campaign have been Poliev, look at Poliev, he's just like Trump. And then
00:00:55.820 hears Carney saying, I'm just like Trump. What do you think of Carney as his ability to campaign
00:01:00.800 and his ability to connect with everyday Canadians? Well, that's been a bit of frustration. I think
00:01:06.940 what's happened is that Carney is so much more connectable than Trudeau. And so his benchmark
00:01:12.940 is so low that it's easy to make him look better than the last guy. And yet a thoughtful comparison
00:01:19.980 would say, has this guy ever held a hammer or a screwdriver? Has he ever actually built anything
00:01:25.640 of relevance for anything other than himself.
00:01:28.620 I mean, Brookfield's obviously doing well.
00:01:30.160 I mean, you saw the messages that came out of the president or prime minister, whatever,
00:01:36.320 the prime minister of England, whatever her title was, I'm sorry.
00:01:39.220 Liz Truss, I think you're talking about.
00:01:41.180 But her disdain for her Bank of Canada guy was palpable.
00:01:45.760 And so if he hasn't really delivered on anything at any time, anywhere, but he still looks better
00:01:53.260 than Trudeau.
00:01:53.940 And again, that's the bizarre part here. Trudeau had developed such a disdain, or Canada had
00:01:59.860 developed such a disdain for Trudeau. It was across all platforms. It didn't matter where he
00:02:04.580 started. But again, let's go back to polling. The polling obviously was very clear that at one time
00:02:11.380 the disdain for Trudeau drove the Conservatives up and the Liberals down. You get rid of Trudeau
00:02:16.740 and now all of a sudden the Liberals rally. I'm openly skeptical that the polling is accurate.
00:02:22.440 As a friend of mine said, my kids don't answer the phone, but they do vote.
00:02:27.160 And again, it'll be interesting to see where all of this unfolded.