‘All hands on deck moment for country’: Liberal candidate Stephen Fuhr

A common Conservative argument levelled against the Carney Liberals is that they have flip-flopped on matters of energy, carbon tax, and inheritance tax among others, and the party has not changed, only its leader.

Fuhr insists Carney is a completely different person than Trudeau.

“His take is that Canada has the potential to be an energy superpower…and the situation demands that the premiers come together on interprovincial trade. Mark Carney is the personality that can bring them together,” he said, pointing to what he sees as a flaw in Poilievre’s ability to connect across the provinces after learning the Conservative leader’s conversation with Ontario Premier Doug Ford recently was their very first.

“How can it be possible that the premier of the biggest province in the country- and a Conservative – has never had a conversation with the leader of the official opposition?”

Asked if Carney and the Liberals could be trusted to run the country in the years to come, especially if the trade tariff friction with Trump is resolved quickly, Fuhr insists what he calls the ‘MAGA sentiment’ and line of Trump political succession in VP JD Vance and Speaker Mike Johnson is not going to be a short-lived problem.

“This issue is not going away, and it’s going to be up to Canada to figure out how to manage it and it keeps bringing me back to Carney because he’s the best option we have – on its own merit and on a comparative merit to what the Conservatives are offering.”