in fact, the faceless bureaucrat coming out of the office has turned out to be a better politician than policy maker - he is better at writing speeches than he is at writing legislation, and he tends not to follow through on specifics. he's a drama queen more than he is a policy wonk. he belongs in front of audiences more than he belongs in front of legislatures.
in a lot of contexts, this might be what the establishment wants (in what is actually a snub to the common wisdom, which is that voters would see through it, it turns out that you actually can become incredibly popular in canada by running for hockey and against america after all. the experts were wrong - we actually are that simple-minded, as a people.), but in the context of canada right now, it's actually what the serious people were trying to get rid of. the country has ignored too many serious issues for too long and is now in desperate need of serious policy before it's too late. mark carney is not creating serious policy, he's walking down the same delusional path back to the nineteenth century that the liberals were supposed to be trying to get us off of. of course, the conservatives present no alternative, but instead are an even less serious option.