Campbell Clark/The Globe and Mail: It was also exorbitantly self-congratulatory for a one-year-old government. Mr. Carney’s speech took a lot of his government’s promises and process-in-progress and made them sound like results, as if the 125,000 promised jobs from the government’s announced defence-industrial strategy were already people hired.
That’s not really shocking at a partisan convention. The speech, like much of the convention, was full of rah-rah Liberal pom-pom shaking. And a touch of Liberal hubris creeping back in…