Don Braid: Mark Carney is a climate zealot who won’t back off the Trudeau agenda
Liberal leadership candidate Mark Carney might appear flexible on the carbon tax, but don’t get your hopes up.
The former Bank of Canada governor is a climate activist of the most devoted and determined sort. He has done more thinking and writing about climate change than the rest of the Trudeau caucus combined.
In 2021, Carney published a boat-anchor book called Values.
This 527-page tome devotes whole chapters to climate change. He ardently believes that the world economy, and certainly Canada’s, must be transformed as quickly as possible to avert the collapse of civilization.
Carney is likely to win the Liberal leadership. He’s more presentable than many of us expected from a finance guy.
Whether he’s joking with U.S. comedy host Jon Stewart or skating on Ottawa’s Rideau Canal, Carney has a certain confident calmness about him.
His main asset, though, is that he hasn’t been an elected member of the hapless government. He could alter or ditch unpopular policies without being accused of rank opportunism….
