This is John Batchler.

Colleague, Conrad Black, Distinguished Biographer, National Post, helps me to understand the choices for the Canadian premiership.

The election is imminent.

The voting is underway.

Already early voting.

Monday will determine either the conservatives, Mr. P Poldever, Pierre Pohlera from Alberta,

or Mr. Carney, who is a liberal, and he was born in the Great Northwest, his father worked for the government.

He is a central banker. He is not a parliamentarian. This is his first ever election.

However, it turns on issues, and Conrad helps us understand them,

especially the unusual approach Mr. Carney has to issues,

something like a referendum on taxes.

Conrad explains.

Here's Conrad Black on the imminent election in Canada.

Well, yes, but in a vague, unspecific way. And as you say, a banker for the benefit of your

listeners, not a banker who sits in a bank and a commercial bank dealing with business people

all day long, all of his career.

And then if he had that experience, he would be much better equipped that he is.

He's a central banker, which means he's a monitorist. They just, you know, monitors the interest rate depending on the political status.

He's been the governor of the central bank in this country and in Great Britain.

And so he sets the interest rate.

But that's not like dealing with business people all the time, as you know.

And so he's not very commercially oriented.

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