How Canadian Media Helped Recruit Prime Minister Carney

How Canadian Media Helped Recruit Prime Minister Carney

It might sound hard to believe, but a London-based bookie had a hand in sparking Canadian media’s early fascination with Prime Minister Mark Carney.The year was 2011, and the head of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) had just resigned after being charged with attempted rape in the United States. The London bookie, William Hill, took bets on his successor and included Carney on the list of possible candidates. The odds were long, ten to one. …

Canada has a new prime minister, apparently. A career official who pretends to be a wiz of finance and who remains suspiciously very discreet about the nature of his fortune. A de facto aristocrat, formed in the collapse of the international monetary system, who got rich during the period of human history when inequalities worsened the most. A man who would not stand in the elections if he could avoid the trouble because he knows that it is due …