That’s exactly who Canadians elected. The ship isn’t sinking any faster and his government is relatively competent. He bright stability and maybe, if Canada is lucky, marginal improvements. No one thought Carney was a leftist.

• who liberal party members elected

I would argue Justin Trudeau’s leadership had a left-leaning slant, and influenced by the (sorry, don’t know the word) American “vote for your leader separately from voting for your representative” system of governance, you could argue Canadians chose a left-leaning government, meanwhile liberal party members chose a right-leaning government.

It’s a cunning strategy for a centrist party in power; swapping out a leader who leans one way with another who leans the other in-between general elections, just when the usual dissolution starts materializing.