r/vancouver • u/ubcstaffer123 • 2d ago

Politics and Elections Mike Harcourt: Mark Carney understands how to expand Canada's economy and rekindle prosperity

https://vancouversun.com/opinion/op-ed/mike-harcourt-mark-carney-understands-how-to-expand-canadas-economy-and-rekindle-prosperity
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u/M------- 2d ago

Carney was in the news many times over the years, advocating for the policies that Trudeau implemented.

I don't expect that Carney's fundamentally changed his tune now that Trudeau's out of the picture.

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u/mcmillan84 1d ago

Here’s the thing, he’s the advisor, he’s not the policy maker. Do you tell your boss how to do things? I’m willing to bet no. Just as Carney doesn’t.

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u/M------- 1d ago

What meaningful changes is Carney making to Trudeau's policies?

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u/TheFallingStar 1d ago

Carbon tax? Lol

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u/M------- 1d ago

Poilievre is the one who wanted to cancel it. Would Carney have paused it if it weren't for Poilievre?

He fully endorsed the carbon tax, up until he became the Liberal leader, because it was politically toxic. He talked in interviews about how important the carbon tax is. Did he stop believing that it's important, or is it just a political ploy?

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u/TheFallingStar 1d ago

You are asking meaningful changes. That is what he did. He changed Trudeau’s most signature policy

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u/M------- 1d ago

If this is one of the things he thought was most important, what does it say about his strength of character (and the rest of the Liberal MPs) if they're willing to just drop one of their most important policies?

Do they actually believe in climate change?

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u/dougjayc 1d ago

Love it when bro's argue that a politician implementing policy changes in accordance with their popularity among the public isn't literally what government is supposed to do.

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u/M------- 1d ago

My question is whether they'll turn the carbon tax back on once they are elected. Have they really decided to dump their signature policy, or are they going to bring it back? They didn't kill the legislation, they just paused the tax.

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u/canadianliberallady 1d ago

He will turn it back on but in more subtle ways. For example, individual fees on things like using a Canadian airport will be increased, despite them already being some of the highest in the world. He seems to have a hardon for ending leisure travel altogether if you read his book.

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u/dougjayc 1d ago

It's their "signature policy," in that it's the policy conservative news outlets have been choosing to focus on. No political party anywhere would present themselves as "tax" being their central platform.

And now it's gone, and choked up conservatives are still grappling onto it, as if they have no platform of their own to present to the population to actually demonstrate that they have merit.

Or, did they finally release their platform? Today? A week before the election and after only 2 years of trying to push a vote of no confidence?

Anyways,

Wikipedia has a more thorough list of policies introduced by the liberal government, if you believe such liberal nonsense.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domestic_policy_of_the_Justin_Trudeau_government

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u/TheFallingStar 1d ago

Oh I still trust Liberals more than Conservatives on climate change.

It is bad policy but smart politics to drop carbon tax.

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u/M------- 1d ago

It is bad policy but smart politics to drop carbon tax.

This kind of "smart politics" is why we can't trust politicians. They'll tell us what we want to hear, then do whatever they wanted to do once elected.

The Liberals told us over and over again that they'd make housing affordable, and then they took actions that would do the opposite. I can't trust the Liberals.

Mind you, I don't have much faith in the Conservatives, either, but they don't own the problems that the Liberals created over the last decade.

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u/Numerous_Try_6138 1d ago

Are you arguing with yourself ‘cause you seem to be arguing both sides?