Thank you for the fascinating interview with Liam DeBoer, Meghan, someone whose work I was quite unfamiliar with. I hope he thinks about leaving Canada. We could certainly use him here.

I do have a caveat on Liam seeing Carney as a central banker in his pre-political career. Carney spent only 13 years and almost 8 months of his life working for the Bank of Canada or the Bank of England, over half of that time at the Bank of England. He spent almost the same amount of time, 13 years altogether, working for Goldman Sachs before moving to the public sector, the company Matt Taibbi memorably described as a vampire squid sucking the life blood out of the world economy. After his career as a central banker ended he joined Brookfield Asset Management in October 2020 and only stepped down in January 2015. His total time working for Goldman Sachs and for Brookfield Asset Management much exceeds the time he spent working as a central banker. Note that while Carney spent almost two decades working in the private sector, he was never the CEO for either of the companies he worked for. This is in contrast to his Prime Ministerial predecessors, Brian Mulroney and Paul Martin.