Why is Carney doing it? I think he wants to keep himself in the public eye, in case there's a vacancy at the top of the Liberal party soon

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Andrew Scheer was just doing what all sports fans do: booing the opposing player they think might cause them most problems.

The former Conservative leader showed up in Nanaimo, B.C. where the Liberal caucus is meeting, and commented on the appointment of ex-bank governor Mark Carney as the chair of a special economic advisory committee to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.

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Scheer dismissed it as a “smoke and mirrors gimmick.”

“At the end of the day, Mark ‘Carbon Tax’ Carney loves the same policies that Justin Trudeau has imposed on Canadians. They are the same people — out of touch elites who believe they know better than hard-working Canadians how to spend your money,” he said.

The fact that the Liberals’ new star player once played a similar role for the Conservatives does not count apparently. Not only did Scheer’s former boss, Stephen Harper, appoint Carney as governor of the Bank of Canada but also at one point reportedly offered him the job of minister of finance, according to one well-placed source.

It is understandable why the Conservatives want to define Carney in the public mind in case he formally enters the political arena: it is a tactic that has worked before.

During the Brexit debate in the U.K., Carney, as the then governor of the Bank of England, warned about the impact of Britain quitting the European Union on exchange rates, trade and inflation. The “Leave” side portrayed him as the personification of the kind of plutocrat who profited from the EU at the expense of the average worker. The success of the effort was exemplified by a BBC Newsnight interview with two elderly ladies in a........

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