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.

Edit: Oh, shoot, I forgot about the 2025 federal election. Yes, Carney was the leader back then.

[–] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Trudeau wasn't left, he was just left of the Carney we got and too pro-US to be leader.

(Carney is also too pro-US to be leader)

[–] Auli@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

So he wasn't left?

[–] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 day ago

Yeah.

[–] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 days ago

The swapout was the case between March and April when Carney was interim leader. And yes, while you could make the argument, that how Carney would lead wouldn't really be understood by Canadians after only two months, Canadians did technically elect the MPs to put Carney in power in a general election. That election was based on his and not Trudeau's platform.

[–] GreenBeard@lemmy.ca 0 points 2 days ago

Trudeau didn't have a left-leaning slant, he had left-leaning face paint on. Left-face if you will. Everything he messed up, he messed up trying to leverage Harper era conservative policy, poorly and without really understanding what he was doing.