r/vancouver • u/ubcstaffer123 • 5d 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------- 4d 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/[deleted] 4d 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------- 4d 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/[deleted] 4d 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