Mark Carneys Verschiebung vom Klimawandel-Krieger zum Cheerleader mit fossilen Brennstoffen
https://www.wsj.com/world/americas/mark-carneys-shift-from-climate-change-warrior-to-fossil-fuel-cheerleader-97d17782?st=774Dy9
Mark Carneys Verschiebung vom Klimawandel-Krieger zum Cheerleader mit fossilen Brennstoffen
https://www.wsj.com/world/americas/mark-carneys-shift-from-climate-change-warrior-to-fossil-fuel-cheerleader-97d17782?st=774Dy9
3 Kommentare
The job of a Prime Minister is to speak for the entire country and, unfortunately maybe, Canada has 3 oil producing provinces.
Yes, when he was not Prime Minister, he did not have to worry about representing Alberta, but now that he is PM, he must work for the best interests of every single member of this federation.
He didn’t shift at all?
Carney campaigned on all of these things. The sad truth is that one of Canada’s main exports is fossil fuels and until there is such a time where fossil fuels aren’t the main source of energy Canada should leverage it’s sizable assets for profit. Our economy is pretty rough right now and increasing oil production will help in the long term, so will proposed pipelines.
The carbon tax was a very contentious piece of legislature and any politician who would stand by it, regardless if it was good or not, was political suicide.
News pieces like this are just already stating the obvious yet trying to spin it as a bad thing lol
His job as prime minister is to do what’s best for Canada and Canadians, and right now fossil fuels production is what that is whether people like it or not
I’d argue that the issue right now is that climate-based concerns have dropped to a fairly low priority due to the housing & Post-COVID cost-of-living crisis. Any party that feels like it’s slacking on those issues compared to it’s peers in the current political climate feels like it risks losing significant ground. (both the Liberals and the NDP toned down the climate rhetoric significantly in 2025 for that reason).
Poilievre quite stupidly/erroneously was able to tie the carbon tax to the cost of living crisis in a lot of voters minds, so the Liberals had little choice except axing it. Zoning/land use reform could significantly bring down per capita emissions over time, but I think what we’re probably going to see from this government is that once economic conditions recover and voters care about climate issues again, we’ll probably see the Liberals and NDP start championing those policies again/making them larger parts of their platform.