Canada needs a break from star candidates.

Justin Trudeau himself epitomizes the star candidate, possessing no specialized skills besides good presentation and teaching high schoolers. He was the ultimate celebrity politician who needed technocrats around him to govern well, only for him to alienate nearly all his brightest and best.

With Trudeau planning to resign, his closest advisers Gerald Butts and Katie Telford are moving on to another celebrity in Mark Carney. The former Bank of Canada and Bank of England governor unofficially kicked off his Liberal leadership campaign with a superficially smooth but oddly uncomfortable Monday night appearance on The Daily Show, followed by an official launch Thursday in Edmonton.