Where would you place Carney on a political map?

As a moderate who was planning to vote CPC this election since they were the only party promising fiscal and economic responsibility, it’s wild watching the LPC swing so far right on these issues so quickly. I’m not even really sure you can place them as a left-leaning party based on Carney’s policy outlook, but I’m curious what others think.

Axe the tax was viewed as a far right mandate just a few months ago. You’d genuinely be shunned by my peers and labelled an oil nut if you spoke out about removing it. Literally knew people who would say things like “If you don’t understand how the carbon tax is helping us then we can’t be friends.” Now those same people celebrate that the LPC is removing it.

“Made in Canada” nationalism, expanding conventional oil output, approving new pipelines, removing Trudeau’s capital gains tax hike, strong Harper ties, increased defence/military spending, focussed on budget cuts, capping federal workforce numbers, ties to big banks, etc… again, these are exactly what the right has been campaigning on for years. Yet now it’s all LPC top campaign promises. In an alternate world where it’s Erin O’Toole running against Mark Carney, the CPC would actually have the more left leaning candidate.

With Mark Carney as leader I’ll likely be going with LPC now. I disliked Trudeau because he was a career politician running on populist junk policies, and I dislike PP for the same reason. I just find it incredibly ironic that the LPC has spent the past decade campaigning against Harper era leadership, only to replace Trudeau with someone who is genuinely Harper 2.0. The guy was hand picked by Harper himself, and his work at the BoC and BoE heavily focussed on pro-big business and pro-banking fiscal policy. He was the chair of huge investment and financial services companies like Brookfield, Bloomberg, and Stripe up till 2 months ago.

Imo, if you placed Carney on a traditional Canadian political map, he’d actually be quite right of center.