‘Surrounded by fools’: Can you really blame Carney for ‘yelling’ at his dimwitted ministers?

Toronto Star columnist Althia Raj published today that Liberal MPs told her Carney yells at caucus, punches down, and tells MPs he does not want to hear their concerns. He wants solutions. Jim and Iain went through the Liberal cabinet to find a competent minister. They are still looking.

Topics covered:
► Althia Raj's Toronto Star column published today, reporting that Liberal MPs told her Carney yells at caucus, punches down, and has told members he does not want to hear their concerns and only wants solutions, representing a significant internal Liberal Party leak

► Jim and Iain's complicated reaction: despite being consistently critical of Carney, both find themselves sympathising with him on this specific story, arguing that he has inherited a caucus that spent eleven years on identity politics and virtue signalling and is now being asked to govern through a recession, a trade war, and a CUSMA deadline

► Jim and Iain's Liberal cabinet incompetence rankings: Steven Guilbault and Marc Miller in the devious category for deliberately going against the wishes of most Canadians, Gary Anandasangaree in the incompetence category, Mélanie Joly described as out of her depth and potentially responsible for more direct economic harm to Canadians than any other cabinet member if the trade deal sabotage reporting is accurate, and Anita Anand for the volume of money frittered

► The challenge Jim and Iain set themselves: name one competent Liberal cabinet minister you would pick first for your team. After significant deliberation the best answer they could produce was Joel Lightbound and possibly Tim Hodgson with significant caveats

► Iain's note on Althia Raj: a Toronto Star columnist and regular CBC panelist who wrote a book called Contender: The Justin Trudeau Story, and who Jim describes as a left-wing activist masquerading as a journalist, making her willingness to publish these leaks even more significant as a signal of how bad things are inside Carney's caucus

► The CEO versus MP culture gap Jim identifies: Carney comes from Brookfield, an organization that gets things done regardless of whether you agree with what is done, while the Liberal MPs he inherited are accustomed to an era of slopping at the trough without accountability, and the collision between those two cultures is producing the leaks

If Carney is yelling at his own caucus while Canada is in recession, is it frustration, desperation, or the right management style for the moment?

Let us know what you think in the comments.

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