We’re keeping an eye on this, but the prognosis offered could be more than a little over-dramatized. What has happened in the past when an unelected person is elevated to leadership of government party is an immediate election call, and in the only modern example (John Turner was chosen to lead Liberals in 1984) the unelected leader finds himself leader of the opposition after the election.
It would be helpful if anti-globalists in the U.S. would let this process play out because perceived interference and boosting the somewhat less globalist opposition is only going to have the predictable effect of boosting Liberal support. We’ll figure this out for ourselves. Carney has media backing of course but that’s not the whole story, outside of Liberal Party circles he is not particularly popular or even well known and when more is learned about him as will be inevitable in an election campaign, I don’t think he’s going to do all that well, people worried about their economic future are hardly likely to be enthusiastic about a millionaire banker from England being their path to recovery.