Commentary
With Mark Carney overwhelmingly elected leader of the Liberal Party of Canada, he will shortly confirm that it is a convention, not a law, that a minister of the Crown must be a member of the legislature. And, I trust, confirm that it is a binding convention, even if the Toronto Star says “Questions loom on whether Carney will trigger an early election,” by asking the Governor General to dissolve Parliament for a campaign that could go one of two ways. No, I don’t mean Tory or Liberal, though polls strongly suggest one or the other is certain unless something else happens. I’m thinking instead of whether it will be positive or negative.
