HALIFAX—In the roller-coaster ride of big-time politics, the ups and downs are to be expected. In these post-fact, post-content times, where perception is king and the public lurches from one short-lived drama to another, almost nothing is fatal in politics. Scandals both real and imagined last about as long as the attention span that Twitter has given us.
Which is why Mark Carney said he would have looked for another way to get relief to the region other than giving them a three-year carbon tax holiday. Conservative Party Leader Pierre Poilievre must now believe that there really is a Santa Claus. At exactly the same time as he is promising to axe the carbon tax for all Canadians, he now has an independent judgement that the government’s tax is not achieving its purpose.