Press Gallery

HOST: DON MARTIN

DON MARTIN: Welcome back. Well, it's time to reality check some of the bigger issues of the day. Let's call in the best and brightest from the national press gallery. Tonda MacCharles writes for the "Toronto Star," Campbell Clark columnist for the "Globe and Mail." See how I really polish you guys up. All right, I don't know if she's causing mischief or not, but Chantal Hebert, your columnist, has...

TONDA MACCHARLES (Toronto Star): Mischief, she's breaking news.

MARTIN: Okay. Well maybe she's, inside, she's quoting insiders, some insiders as saying there's been talks that Mark Carney, Bank of Canada and England governor may be doing his own little Brexit plan of coming to Canada to head head the Liberal party after, if Trudeau bombs in the election. Is this realistic?

MACCHARLES: Well she hasn't actually said in that story who's talking, and she certainly didn't say Carney was a part of that. But she certainty set out that there's a conversation being had among some Liberal insiders who are not, by the way, part of the attempt years ago to recruit Mark Carney into politics, to get him sort of looking at this more seriously, because his time is pretty soon up in Britain. He's been extended for another six months, but by the end of October he's looking for a job, and so apparently there are some Liberals that are I guess upset enough and trying to make contingency plans just in case they only secure a minority.

MARTIN: I want to make sure you understand that Chantal does not float trial balloons, she doesn't make up sources. This is probably really happening. She doesn't write stuff, you know, halfheartedly. But last time this happened, a guy named Michael Ignatieff rode in from out of the country...