On Tuesday, Liberal Leader Mark Carney tweeted these words: “If it’s built by Canadian workers on Canadian docks, it should be made with Canadian steel and aluminum.” And I thought to myself: well, there goes the Economist Party dream. There’s been a long-running social media joke about how what Canada really needs is a party of ruthless optimizers, led by economically educated people devoted to rationality, liberal doctrine (whether neoliberal or classical-liberal) and reduction of trade barriers and socialistic/nationalistic wheel-spinning. An Economist Party, if you will, free from expensive Conservative gesticulating, Liberal pieties and New Democratic nonsense.