Saturday afternoon, Liberal MP Nathaniel Erksine-Smith held a small gathering at Beaches Brewpub in Toronto’s East end so that his special guest Mark Carney could make an “announcement” to the Beaches-East York community. Carney was given the rockstar treatment by this small crowd that gathered in the east of Toronto to see him — it was pure adoration.

This “perfect alternative to Justin Trudeau” may as well have been Trudeau 2.0. His speech lacked any specific policies for his supporters to wrestle with, just the same vague grand promises we’ve come to expect from the Liberal party the urgency of an economy based on “sustainable” environmental policies. The was no acknowledgment whatsoever of why their party is in dire straits — just a plea to continue to support them while their ships sinks with the same unpopular ideas.