Politics Is a Market, Not a Mood

Mark Carney and Pierre Poilievre are selling different products to different Canadians and right now one market appears larger than the other

Any time you hear someone say “Canadians want this” or “Canadians think that,” you should be skeptical.

There is no single Canadian consumer of politics.

There is no unified national preference waiting to be discovered and satisfied.

What we call public opinion is not one market but many, layered on top of each other, shaped by different pressures, level…