Dear everyone happily dunking on PM Carney for <insert your problem here>,
A reminder that *perfect* was not a candidate in the last election. The two real choices in that election were between Carney, a reasonable human being, and Pierre Poilievre, a self-serving, perpetually taxpayer funded, power hungry, sycophant.
Not happy with Carney? Fine. But at least be honest enough to realize he's a better choice than what the Conservatives offered: wanna-be cult leader Diet Trump.
@Amgine To my memory, 'twas the NDP took that swing by melodramatically tearing up the supply agreement. After they had successfully pushed the Liberals into doing some good, like the dental plan. The NDP smelled the blood in the water of a weakening Trudeau and sought to take advantage of that, hoping non-right voters would switch from Liberal to NDP, giving them more power under a Conservative minority.
That's what failed.
You think a party which had still not repaid the previous campaign debt would do anything to bring it early?
And the advertising buys confirm my take on the story. The LPC targeted NDP ridings.
They got some NDP seats.
CPC got more of 'em. Including mine. (I voted green, as usual.)
@Amgine They made that choice, debt or no debt. They DID take action to bring about an election early. The NDP decided to end their agreement early, either to secure more seats or to appear to the public that the NDP was going to do "the right thing", even if it was not in their own best interest.
The LPC targeted NDP ridings because going after safe CPC ridings is a waste of money. People in my neighbourhood would vote for a blue-painted rock running on a CPC banner. Fighting that is folly.
@Amgine Heck I used to send the local CPC candidate a "screw you on your election victory" tweet while I was standing in line to vote against him. There is no way my voice is even considered in this riding.
Splitting of the left leaning votes is a problem in Canada. It's the only reason why Doug Ford is still the premier of Ontario, for example. The LPC and NDP need to cooperate more.
Canada as a whole is lucky to have Carney over Poilievre, not necessarily luck to have Carney. Was my point.
But you did not say that. You said people are dunkin' on Carney.
They are. Because he is governing farther right than Stephen Harper. He is a conservative, and you do not have to listen to me - political scientists and researchers are saying this.
If you think Harper was bad, Carney is worse. So dunkin' on people saying it is... not a good look.
Believe it or not, there are more ridings outside of "Western Canada" than in it. And far more of the country was in play than usual.
But the NDP did not have incumbents in most of it; they had a very small number of them, in fact.
Those ridings all had maximum LPC spends.
@Amgine Ya, no shit, thanks.
The point was "targeting NDP ridings" really means targeting winnable ridings. Progressive or centrist candidates are not going to win votes from the frothing at the mouth cultists in safe CPC ridings. Not spending money in those ridings is a good election strategy.
@Amgine As for any coalition with the UCP ... no such thing exists. Carney gave Smith enough rope to hang herself with, and nothing else. He basically dared her to go ahead and get a pipeline if she thought it was so easy, and now she's finding out the federal government was not the main roadblock.
Unless you're referring to the small peace deal between Carney and Poilievre in which case that is no coalition, that's just so things move quicker without Poilievre's "axe the tax" performances
Brad 
Amgine