Chantal Hebert
π€ SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
I look back at the prime ministers I've covered and all of them,
had significant differences from the others in many ways.
Think of Jean ChrΓ©tien, someone who came to politics
with very low expectations that he would become the very deft political animal with the instincts that he had that brought him to be a long-lasting prime minister.
Brian Mulroney was a different kind of animal altogether.
I think the biggest difference between Mark Carney and maybe Jean ChrΓ©tien and Brian Mulroney and John Turner, if we're going to go there, is I don't think Mark Carney spent his life thinking that the path to the top job in the country involved being in active politics.
that he made this life even more than Brian Mulroney somewhere else.
Brian Mulroney wanted that job.
He ran twice to lead the Conservative Party.
He spent years making sure that he got there.
I know Mark Carney wanted to be in politics, but he...
did the learning on the job and the preparing outside of politics.
That makes him a bit different from any prime minister we've had before.
None of them walked in the House of Commons for the first time in the job of prime minister.
But Bruce lives in that head.
He's not the only one.
Good news for once.
I watched the announcement that AirAsia was buying 150 planes from Airbus out in Mirabel.
It's a big deal.
It's $19 billion, but it's also buying an airplane that the Quebec government supported throughout its creation.