Did the Liberals Backdoor Ruby Dhalla to Hand Mark Carney the Crown?

She was surging in the polls—so why was she secretly disqualified? Was this a race or a coronation?

She Wasn’t Supposed to Win

Ruby Dhalla wasn’t supposed to be a problem. When she entered the Liberal leadership race, she was treated as an afterthought, an outsider with no chance of breaking through. Mark Carney was the clear favorite—not because he had some overwhelming grassroots movement behind him, but because the Liberal swamp had already crowned …