Links - 12th April 2025 (1 - Mark Carney)

Tablesalt 🇨🇦 on X - "Mark Carney stole Poilievre's entire platform:
-Got rid of DEI ministers
-"Canceled" carbon tax
-Arctic defense spending
-pledges to fix immigration
LIberal voters LOVE Carney for the same policies they hated Pierre for because it's a cult."

Joel Kotkin: If Carney brings Canada closer to Europe, financial ruin would follow - "A tilt towards Europe would be natural for Liberal Leader Mark Carney , the former pre-Brexit head of the Bank of England. He’s an advocate of the very environmental, social and economic policies that have led the EU — and, to some extent, Canada — into economic and social decline. Carney is the ultimate product of the Euro-Atlantic elite, with affiliations with the World Economic Forum, the Bilderberg Group and the Group of Thirty. Recently, he travelled to Europe in a search of “reliable allies” — that is, people who think alike. He has identified as a “ European ” in the past, and holds British and Irish citizenship. In office, we can expect him to epitomize the bureaucratic spirit of the profoundly dysfunctional EU. The central organizing principle of the EU is disregard for nation-states. Recent antidemocratic moves to remove troublesome populists in Romania and take out a leading presidential aspirant in France suggests Europe’s most outspoken defenders of democracy frequently toss out results when disappointed. The rest of the European agenda is no bargain, either. It prioritizes an ever-expanding welfare state, as well as climate, social and immigration policies now rejected in the United States. Its politics, and economics, centre on stasis. This is a swan song Canadians need to resist. Under the government of former prime minister Justin Trudeau, Canada was already succumbing to the essentials of Euro-politics: high trade barriers , net-zero climate policies, essentially open borders and the systematic undermining of the country’s past... If elected, we could see growing unrest in places like Alberta, whose economy propels what’s left of Canadian competitiveness. Industrial workers in places like southern Ontario who are already facing the consequences of Trump’s tariff tirades will particularly be threatened. Europe’s “energy leadership” on climate and its net-zero policies are undermining its fading industrial economy , all to the benefit of China, the world’s largest emitter of greenhouse gasses. In Europe, strict adherence to climate policy amounts to energy suicide . Late last year, Germany’s economy suffered greatly due to a combination of cold weather, cloud cover and light winds, which forced it to import power from Scandinavian countries due to its over-reliance on wind and solar. Overall, Europe remains a consistent laggard in terms of economic growth and entrepreneurship. Embracing European policies all but guarantees that Canada, too, will lag behind the United States on tech and innovation. Equally concerning, Canada already seems eager to ape Europe on censorship and even imposing financial penalties on those who, for example, disagreed with COVID policies. The embrace of censorship across social media , already proposed by Trudeau, follows typically European lines. Trump and his ilk may seem illiberal at times, but it’s the EU that seeks to control speech, strictly regulate foreign firms and remove opponents by force. Canada under Trudeau also embraced Europe’s adoption of essentially open borders, opening the doors to anyone who has a good story, rather than judging newcomers primarily on what they can offer the country. As in Europe, Canada now gets more people but less per capita wealth , while elements with illiberal ideas and even murderous ideologies come in with ease. Finally, there is the always-dodgy issue of Canadian identity. Canada has long worried about annexation from its bumptious and sometimes hyper-aggressive neighbour. Long ago, it adopted European ideas that benefit many, notably on health care. But Canadian identity has been battered by an increased assault on Canada’s past and its designation as an essentially racist, genocidal entity. This represents a threat to Canada’s complex identity and its social cohesion."

EDITORIAL: Carney’s wrong on pipeline law - "Liberal Leader Mark Carney confirmed this week that his party will not repeal Bill C-69 if his party forms the next government. The legislation makes the regulatory burden greater and more complicated for new resource projects. It’s been dubbed the “no more pipelines” law and challenged in both the Alberta Court of Appeal and the Supreme Court of Canada, both of which ruled it unconstitutional. The Alberta court called it “a constitutional Trojan Horse” and said it “tears apart the constitutional division of power.” The Supreme Court of Canada agreed. Carney is “thumbing his nose at the Constitution,” said former Alberta premier and former federal cabinet minister Jason Kenney. “Complying with the Constitution isn’t partisan. It’s not ideological. It’s not optional. It’s mandatory,” he posted on X. It’s also a foolish policy for this country to pursue. Alberta Premier Danielle Smith posted a dire warning on X: “Make no mistake. If this law stays, there will be few, if any, large-scale energy infrastructure projects built in this country and Alberta and Saskatchewan will be cut off from international markets. This means Canada will become more vulnerable to and overly dependent on the United States.” Those living in Eastern Canada should worry because, in order for oil and gas to get to them from the West, it passes through the U.S., so we don’t have control of our own energy supply. If we’ve learned anything over the past few months, it’s that this country has to aim for energy security and self-reliance in all aspects of our economy. All those brave words about “Elbows Up” and “Canada Strong” are just hot air and slogans if we’re not prepared to fight for our survival with every weapon at our disposal. Carney’s farcical “Net Zero” fantasy is just bunk. It will consign this country to third-world status at a time when our neighbour is promising to “drill, baby, drill!” It steps on provincial toes and is harmful and divisive."

LILLEY: In the battle for build Canada's economy up, Poilievre wins - "Consider that in 2022, 76% of all Canadian exports went to the United States. In 1896, when Canada was part of the British Empire, we exported 60% of our goods to the empire. We are more reliant on the Americans than we were on the British at the height of Pax Britannia... Alberta Premier Danielle Smith said that Carney’s comments now don’t align with what he told her recently. “Less than two weeks ago, Mark Carney told me in person that C-69 was a barrier to large national energy projects and needed to be dealt with. Now he says he has no intention to do anything with it,” Smith posted. Smith said keeping this law in place will mean fewer large-scale projects developed and that Canada will become more reliant on the United States."

Election Power Meter: Local media gets Carney's cold shoulder - "local media was prevented from covering the Liberal leader’s event to open his own campaign office. “ This is the only time I’ve ever been barred access to a political event by a party leader,” tweeted Charlie Senack, the managing editor of the Kitchissippi Times. Senack said the Liberals quickly got in touch with him after that, calling it “a miscommunication” and offered a formal apology. He was surprised to find out, though, that Carney’s next two events in the riding were also closed to the media."

Jesse Kline: Mark Carney's five-year plan for Soviet-style housing - "“We used to build things in this country,” lamented Liberal Leader Mark Carney in an online campaign ad released earlier this week. “It’s time your government got back into the business of building affordable homes.” You heard that right, folks: the government that was years behind schedule and billions of dollars over budget building the Trans Mountain pipeline , the same one that still hasn’t managed to construct a single deepwater port in the Arctic that was supposed to be completed in 2012, thinks it would be better at developing houses than the private sector. On Monday, the Liberals unveiled what they’re dubbing the “most ambitious housing plan since the Second World War.” It promises to build 500,000 homes a year, both through the private sector and a newly created, and unimaginatively named, agency called “Build Canada Homes” (BCH), which appears to be modelled off the Crown corporations responsible for building cookie-cutter houses and state-owned rental complexes during and after the war. BCH will “act as a developer,” developing and managing projects, provide “financing to affordable home-builders,” acquire land to “add to Canada’s affordable housing stock” and provide $26 billion in debt and equity financing to prefab home manufacturers, from whom it will place “bulk orders” to “create sustained demand.” In addition, the agency will provide $10 billion in subsidies and loans to affordable home-builders. While the Liberals claim to have lifted the strategy straight out of the playbook of Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King, it could more accurately be described as a mix of ideas taken from Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre, and ones that would feel right at home in an NDP platform... In the 2021 election, the Grits promised to “build or revitalize” 62,500 homes per year, “on top of the 285,000 homes currently being built each year.” Yet according to Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC) data , new housing construction starts haven’t even met that baseline of 285,000 in the years since. In fact, they’ve fallen from 244,650 in 2021, to just under 228,000 last year. And this year looks even worse: in February, the CMHC reported that, “Actual housing starts were down 17 per cent year-over-year” in urban centres, while “Vancouver recorded a 48 per cent decrease and starts in Toronto fell 68 per cent from February 2024.” In late 2023, Liberal housing minister Sean Fraser also took a page from the postwar playbook, announcing that the government would be compiling a catalogue of standardized blueprints to reduce the cost and time it takes to build new homes. Over a year later, the CMHC finally released its catalogue of 50 low-rise designs this month, which has already been criticized for lacking many of the amenities of modern homes and being unlikely to “move the needle” on affordability. But if you want an idea of what Carney’s government-built houses — or “Carneykas,” as I like to call them — will look like, the government’s “ Housing Design Catalogue ” is probably a good place to start. The Liberal policy document does contain some good ideas, such as cutting “municipal development charges in half for multi-unit residential housing” and reducing “housing bureaucracy, zoning restrictions and other red tape,” though these are basically the same policies Poilievre has been pitching for years. Again, the question comes down to: who do we trust to actually get things done? The Liberals have made it abundantly clear over their nearly 10 years in office that they’ve never met a problem they don’t think can be solved with a massive influx of taxpayer money and new layers of government bureaucracy. And now, despite selling himself as a fresh face with new ideas, Carney is proposing creating a new federal bureaucracy in the BCH and engaging in a Soviet-style building project that’s sure to cost taxpayers a pretty penny. Just how much remains unknown, but a 2023 report from the Macdonald-Laurier Institute said a “conservative” estimate of how much it would cost to build enough units to meet “a minimum of Canada’s housing needs” was between $196- and $300-billion. And that’s on top of the tens of billions in subsidies and loans the Carney Liberals are promising to developers. And where exactly is this money going to come from? The Liberals have already more than doubled the national debt and are running $60-billion deficits . Meanwhile, the country is facing a tariff-induced recession that will reduce government revenues and increase the cost of social supports, and Carney is pledging to cut taxes without a clear plan for how to make up the lost revenue. The Liberals seem to be operating off the old adage that, “If you want something done right, you have to do it yourself.” But this is a party whose own law, the Impact Assessment Act, makes it next to impossible to so much as change a light bulb in a national park."
Left wingers should be very happy, since they keep calling for the government to build housing. But who will they blame if this is tried and fails?
Time for all the left wingers who used to crow about housing being provincial jurisdiction (because they wanted to blame conservatives) to go on about how the federal government should be in charge

Terence Corcoran: Will centrist Liberals turn against Carney? New housing plan could pull trigger - "Early in the Second World War, Ottawa created a new crown corporation, Wartime Housing Ltd., under the War Measures Act, to build temporary rental houses for war workers and soldiers. With a head office in Toronto, by 1945 it had 51 branch offices at work in 73 municipalities. But at the end of the war, Liberal cabinet minister C.D. Howe rejected a proposal to convert Wartime Housing Ltd. from a home builder for soldiers into a national public housing authority. Apparently the prospect of the federal government “becoming landlord to even more Canadian families horrified a Liberal government that was dedicated to private enterprise and would do almost anything to avoid getting into a policy of public housing.” Under the Carney economic model, however, no amount of economic intervention is objectionable, never mind horrifying... In keeping with Carney’s carbon control objectives, BCH will “build sustainably” by using certified wood, recycled content and “low-emission materials.” Another idea recycled from history is a tax incentive cost allowance to spur new rental housing. Known as a Multiple Unit Rental Building (MURB), it was a high-profile but mostly ineffectual tax incentive hauled out of the 1970s housing policy swamp. Numerous studies commissioned by Canada Mortgage and Housing Corp. (CMHC) described the MURB and other federal interventions as failures. A 1988 evaluation of the MURB program by Clayton Research Associates found that “MURB is an expensive subsidy policy that is ineffective as a housing assistance program.” A summary of another Clayton study in 1984 stated that it “concurred with the majority of housing analysts that there should be a resolve on the part of governments not to interfere unduly in the operation of the private rental market.”... If Carney is willing to go this far into the housing market, what are his plans for all the other woes, real and imagined, now on the agenda?"
This doesn't stop left wingers rewriting history by claiming that when the government built housing, it was very effective at doing so

Large majority of Canadians want Carney to disclose business interests: poll - "Two-thirds of Canadians think Liberal leader Mark Carney should proactively reveal his business interests before election day, according to a new poll... Carney has so far refused to disclose the assets he says he put into a blind trust weeks ago, or his potential conflicts of interest... Carney also previously dismissed a reporter’s suggestion that he might have conflicts of interest after spending years working in the private sector, before later acknowledging he expects to recuse himself from his past work as chairman at Brookfield Asset Management... Since the beginning of the campaign, Conservatives have harped on about Carney being “just like Justin” Trudeau. According to the poll, the same proportion of respondents (42 per cent) agreed and disagreed that Carney is like Trudeau... Carney and the Liberals have run advertisements and messaging comparing Poilievre to Trump, a message that appears to be catching on slightly more. Nearly half of poll respondents said Poilievre is like Trump, whereas 35 per cent disagreed... The poll suggests both leaders score roughly the same (6/10 for Carney, 5.9/10 for Poilievre) when respondents are asked how much each is considered a “Canadian patriot.” Enns said he expected Carney to score better than in light of the Liberals’ recent boost in the polls led by their response to Trump. Voters also appear skeptical of Poilievre and Carney’s proximity to the common man, scoring both a 5.9/10 when asked to rate how much each is “in touch” with the typical Canadian voter."

KLEIN: Canada remains leaderless, even after Carney’s coronation - "Mark Carney is now the Prime Minister of Canada. Not because you voted for him. Not because there was a general election. It’s because a small group of political insiders decided it was his turn. Carney was handed the reins of our country, not by the Canadian people, but by the backroom dealers of the Liberal Party and their allies on the left. This is not how democracy is supposed to work. Let’s start with the so-called leadership “race.” If you believe the headlines from CBC and other legacy media outlets, this was some kind of sweeping movement of Canadians demanding Mark Carney take over. The facts tell a different story. According to reports, the Liberals boast about 400,000 registered party members. In the end, however, only 267,000 were deemed eligible to cast a ballot. That’s more than one-third — over 130,000 people —disqualified, shut out of the process. Why? What happened? No one seems interested in asking that question, especially not the media covering Carney like he’s a rock star on tour. For all the talk of inclusion, openness, and fairness, it’s clear that this leadership race was carefully managed, controlled, and sanitized. Carney didn’t invite independent media into his events. He answered few, if any, real questions. His campaign was rolled out like a pre-packaged product, polished for mass consumption but light on substance. That’s probably why he spent most of his time behind closed doors, speaking to select audiences and donors. Meanwhile, the CBC — our state-funded broadcaster — played its part, pumping out endless glowing coverage. No scrutiny, no hard questions. Compare that to the way conservative candidates are treated in this country. Pierre Poilievre can fill arenas, hold town halls, and face tough questions head-on. Yet the coverage is negative, dismissive, or ignored altogether. We are witnessing social engineering in real time. It’s a manipulation of public opinion through selective coverage and media bias. This is about control. Control of our economy, control of our industry, control of our borders, and ultimately, control of our democracy. It’s all happening in plain sight. Take the current trade fight with the United States. Carney and his allies act as if they’re standing up for Canadian interests. They use patriotic language to rally support. However, we all know the truth. They’re not interested in defending Canadian businesses or jobs. They’re interested in virtue-signaling and ideological posturing... Meanwhile, Canadian businesses are struggling. Investment is leaving the country. According to Statistics Canada, foreign direct investment (FDI) into Canada fell sharply after 2015, coinciding with Trudeau’s first term. In 2014, FDI inflows totaled $53 billion. By 2020, they had dropped to $24 billion. That’s less than half. And it’s not just foreign investment leaving — Canadian capital is going abroad. In 2020, Canadian direct investment abroad hit $1.6 trillion, nearly double what it was in 2010. Why? Because our regulatory environment has become hostile. Because the policies of Trudeau’s Liberals — and now, Carney’s — have made Canada a bad place to do business. They killed the Energy East pipeline, which would have brought billions in investment and created thousands of jobs. They created impossible obstacles to mining projects that are essential to the green energy transition they claim to support. According to the Fraser Institute, Canada’s mining attractiveness ranking has dropped significantly since 2015. Permitting delays, regulatory uncertainty, and high taxes are pushing mining companies to look elsewhere. Carney’s Liberals would rather demonize their critics than admit failure. They accuse conservatives of being “un-Canadian” for questioning their policies. This is the same crowd that spent years apologizing for Canada’s history, opening our borders to anyone and everyone, and driving up demand for housing beyond what the market could handle. Today, we have a housing crisis. We have crime rates rising in every major city. According to Statistics Canada, the country’s Crime Severity Index rose for the second consecutive year in 2022. Violent crime increased by 5%, with homicides reaching their highest level since 1992. These aren’t accidents. They are the predictable outcomes of deliberate policy choices made by the Liberal government. And let’s not forget Jagmeet Singh and the NDP, who kept the Liberals in power long after their legitimacy was gone... Liberal policies have hollowed out our economy. They’ve driven away investment and opportunity. They’ve made energy more expensive, housing less affordable, and our cities less safe. They’ve created a Canada that many of us barely recognize. Carney may be the new face, but it’s the same old party. The same policies. The same ideology. And the same contempt for anyone who disagrees with them."

FIRST READING: Mark Carney's not really supposed to be doing anything - "No appointments. No new spending or taxes. No foreign policy commitments. Nothing at all that isn’t “routine,” “non-controversial” and “reversible.” It’s all part of the “caretaker convention,” a longstanding parliamentary tradition which holds that until a prime minister is able to “command the confidence of the House of Commons,” he’s not allowed to wield the full powers of his office. In fact, he’s not supposed to do almost any of the things Canadians typically associate with their prime minister. “Avoid participating in high-profile government-related domestic and international events,” reads an official Privy Council guide to the caretaker convention. It adds that this includes “international visits, and the signing of treaties and agreements.” Caretaker prime ministers are also asked to steer clear of “appointments,” “policy decisions,” “new spending,” “negotiations or consultations,” “non-routine contracts,” and “grants and contributions.” The only real exception to this is anything that could be deemed “urgent and in the public interest.” But in his first hours as prime minister, Carney is already acting beyond the limits of a caretaker. Shortly after his swearing-in, he signed an order to get rid of the consumer carbon tax. Next week, he is planning to travel to the U.K. and France on official business. When asked by a reporter when he would be convening the House of Commons, he brushed it off... Unlike, say, the U.S. presidency, the office of prime minister is not a directly elected position. The position isn’t even mentioned in the British North America Act, Canada’s founding constitution. Instead, it refers only to the executive powers of the Governor General, who acts on the “advice” of the Privy Council. Only in practice did this become a system in which the Governor General defers to the executive decisions of the prime minister — provided that the prime minister has the legitimacy to govern. One of the only times a Governor General ever slapped down a prime minister, in fact, was over charges that the prime minister was attempting to govern without the confidence of the House. When Charles Tupper lost an election to Liberal leader Wilfrid Laurier in 1896, he refused to cede power or convene Parliament, and was ultimately forced to resign by Governor General Lord Aberdeen after attempting to push through some patronage appointments. Carney isn’t the first non-MP to be sworn-in as Canadian prime minister, but he is the first without any parliamentary experience whatsoever. Contrary to popular belief, the prime minister doesn’t have to be a parliamentarian or even a Canadian citizen — it’s anyone who can command the confidence of the House of Commons. But no such vote can occur until Parliament is recalled... former Conservative staffer Howard Anglin argued that until Carney has “met the House and secured its confidence,” the Governor General should ignore him if he tries to do anything beyond the basics... Carleton University Westminster expert Philippe Lagassé agreed, telling National Post, “This is a new ministry and it’s not evident that it will hold confidence, so caretaker should apply until there is a confidence vote.”"

Carney’s showing his weaknesses. But so is Poilievre: Selley - "Mark Carney had clearly been thinking about becoming prime minister of Canada for quite some time before it happened. To say the least, this wasn’t some spur of the moment decision. So, it is some kind of minor mystery that he managed to wander into a press conference in London, England on Monday and come off like a brittle, entitled arriviste... When the Globe and Mail’s Stephanie Levitz, one of the most no-nonsense reporters in the parliamentary press gallery, pressed Carney on the timeline for disclosing his assets with respect to the (presumably) forthcoming election, Carney seemed incredulous even to be asked, insisting he was “following the rules.” “What possible conflict would (I) have, Stephanie?” Carney asked. Seriously? The former vice-chair of Brookfield Asset Management, which boasts of “over US $1 trillion of assets under management”? About which Carney — at the very least — got cute with the truth with respect to the timing of his resignation and the company’s headquarters moving to the United States? After our recent experience with very rich men wandering into politics? (Remember Bill Morneau’s chateau in France? Morneau apparently didn’t.) After our recent experience with a considerably less rich man who nevertheless enjoyed the perks of genealogy and office to the tune of a miles-offside vacation on the Aga Khan’s private island? The same guy who stood amidst the smouldering wreckage of the Kielburger/WE Charity catastrophe and accused NDP leader Jagmeet Singh of “cynicism … in regards to supporting students”?... When CBC’s Rosemary Barton began questioning Carney along the same lines, the prime minister suggested she was bringing “ill will” into the discussion and implored her to “look inside yourself” to find … well, presumably evidence of Carney’s all-encompassing benevolence. How is it possible that over the months of cogitation and planning and second-guessing, no one screen-tested this guy in a press conference?... I can’t help noticing the Liberals seem to have kept on the same sad-sack social-media team that bombarded users with shameless hypocrisy for the better part of 10 years. You want to cultivate cynicism in Canadian politics? How about setting the consumer carbon tax you’ve for years been insisting is key to the future of the planet to zero, and then moments later crowing about it on X. “Mark Carney cancelled the carbon tax,” the Liberals tweeted."

David Staples: Mark Carney's economic plan? Trudeau's plan on steroids - "Justin Trudeau’s economic policies are now widely disliked and rejected. The Canadian public and business experts alike see them as a cause of inflation and the flight of business investment from Canada.   Hold my beer, says Mark Carney.  Carney, the front-runner to replace Trudeau and become Canada’s next prime minister, has spent the first weeks of his campaign describing an economic plan that sounds like everything Trudeau did, only on steroids. Carbon taxes? Yes, as much as ever.  Government subsides to private companies? More than ever, so long as they’re favoured “clean energy” companies, like battery plants in Ontario and Quebec where the Liberals are spending tens of billions.  The federal government pushing ahead with economic policy no matter what? Yes, even if the plans stomp all over free enterprise, not to mention provincial rights and sovereignty. Carney promises to use extraordinary powers to get his way. As he put it in a Kelowna speech this week, “My government is going use all of the powers of the federal government, including the emergency powers of the federal government, to accelerate the major projects that we need in order to build this economy.”  And what kind of projects does he think we need? “We will speed up approvals of clean energy projects,” he said in a recent Halifax speech. Carney, who has been called the architect of pushing green investment policy, still thinks carbon taxes are good, but admits the consumer carbon tax is “very divisive.” He’ll change it, he said, shifting the burden on to Canada’s already struggling industrial sector.  “The issue wasn’t — to coin a phrase — whether to ‘axe the tax.’ The issue was how to change it,” he said in a Kelowna speech this week.  Under Carney, citizens will still get carbon rebate cheques and big business will pay for it: “We’re making the large companies pay for everybody,” Carney said. “The taxpayer is not going to pay. Our companies, our largest companies, are going to pay.”   Essentially our industrial sector — huge employers, huge creators of export wealth and government taxes — now face the possible double whammy of Carney carbon taxes and Trump tariffs. Of course, they can avoid both if they move their factories to the United States, which is exactly what many will do.  Calgary financier Martin Pelletier has outlined the following scenario: “Carney wins. Goes all-in on securing a formalized deal with the EU (European Union) and mirrors their disastrous regulatory and environmental policies. Aggressively goes after oil and gas sector, imposing a large production cap and phaseout policy. Raises income tax tier and goes after small and medium businesses. Canadian dollar goes to 60 cents. I’m telling you. There will be a mass exodus of wealthy Canadians.”  In true bizarro Trudeau fashion, Carney has insisted there will be no losers his Carbon Tax 2.0, not consumers, not even big business. When CTV host Todd Battis asked him if the carbon tax on big business would trickle down to consumers, Carney said, “No, because what the big companies are producing by and large are not products that we are consuming. There is some element of that. But, by and large, you know, a steel company, how much steel are you using these days, Todd?” It’s hard to know what to make of such a nonsensical response other than it’s similar to the magical thinking that we saw regularly from Trudeau, where the federal budget was to miraculously balance itself, as opposed to doubling in size to $1.2 trillion during his 10 years in power.  But whatever Trudeau, Carney and a handful of green-obsessed governments in Europe believe, the rest of the world is pushing ever harder to gobble up and utilize as much energy as possible, including the unprecedented burning of coal, so it can to build up industry and prosperity.   In coming months, you’ll hear Carney repeatedly demonize the USA as some kind of weird outlier caught up in a “fever” that sees them reject his views on emissions reduction. But Americans are simply sick of losing jobs to China, India and other nations. As the ambitious developing world sees it, there’s one surefire way of building an economy — using cheap and abundant energy to drive down prices and make farming and manufacturing economical.  For all his smarts and boasts of pragmatism, Carney refuses to embrace this path. Instead he plans to outpace Trudeau. Canada is already a weakling among nations, pushed around by China and the USA. It’s hard to imagine us still standing if we accelerate Trudeau’s plans, but that’s the national dream Carney intends to force-feed us."
Weird. I thought he was economically literate. But he thinks companies don't pass on costs to consumers

Meme - *Liberal carbon tax as canned soup*
Mark Carney thinking: "... 'Reheat and serve.'"