Jay Currie

“He is really sharp, he cuts to the chase. There’s no bullshit about him,” the banker said. “I like him. He rubs some people the wrong way … he’s a little bit cocky,” he said. reuters

Mark Carney, economics PhD, Harvard, Oxford, Goldman Sachs, 42 – all that Iggy had but twenty years younger and with serious, earned, money and the next Governor of the Bank of Canada…hmm, bet he speaks French. (Yup, “Carney had to hone his French after arriving in Ottawa to meet the bilingual demands of public service” Bloomberg)

Which would mean, assuming that Harper either wins a majority or hits the minority wall, our man Mark in three years can switch to the politically pointy end of public service for either the CPC or the Liberals. And, given that Harper appointed him over the head of a 35 year vet, I can’t but think that the CPC might be the ticket.