FIRST READING: The ‘fake’ document at Carney’s Trump-style signing ceremony
One of Mark Carney’s first actions as prime minister was to hold a signing ceremony to “cancel” the consumer carbon tax.
“The consumer carbon tax was too divisive when we should be pulling together. That’s why I took action to cancel it on day one,” wrote Carney in a social media post.
There are just two problems with the statement: It didn’t cancel the carbon tax, it just set the rate to zero. It’s also not clear whether the document Carney signed actually did anything — with critics calling it a “fake” prop designed to mimic an American executive order.
