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Liberal leadership candidate and former Bank of Canada governor Mark Carney said on Sunday that former prime minister Stephen Harper asked him to join his cabinet as finance minister in 2012.

The former central banker then said it "wasn't appropriate" for him to proceed with the offer because he didn't feel it would be right to "go directly from being governor into elective politics."

Harper's former director of communications Dimitri Soudas said in a statement to CBC News that "Mark Carney is not telling the whole story, and prime minister Harper certainly does not support Mr. Carney in any way."

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[–] nyan@lemmy.cafe 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Well, they don't seem to be actively contradicting each other.

“Mark Carney is not telling the whole story" I'm sure there are details that Carney didn't bring up, but are they the kind that would actually matter to anyone more than a decade later? It's possible that they are, but it seems more likely that he left them out because they were irrelevant to anything except Harper's ego.

"[Former] prime minister Harper certainly does not support Mr. Carney in any way.” Well, no, not now he wouldn't. Doesn't mean he never did, and Carney was talking about Harper's attitude of a dozen years ago, not that of the present.

My interpretation: Harper asked him as a joke/with no intention of following through, and Carney took advantage of that to do a bit of virtue signalling at the Conservatives' expense, without actually lying.

I actually saw the interview, because someone else in the house was watching it while I was in the kitchen. The bit about Harper was pretty much a throwaway, and not what people should be focusing on. Move along, nothing to see here.

[–] HellsBelle@sh.itjust.works 5 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Harper has zero history of joking around about anything, so I doubt it was a joke.

[–] wise_pancake@lemmy.ca 7 points 6 months ago (1 children)

He said he likes movies that one time. I think that was a joke.

[–] HellsBelle@sh.itjust.works 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Tickling the ivories while wearing a sweater vest may have been another one. I know I laughed.