Top Liberals distance themselves from the carbon tax

We know that the Conservative Party of Canada opposes carbon taxes, and intends to end them the moment they get their hands on some power. God knows, Pierre Poilievre says "Axe the Tax!" at the start of every sentence he utters. You feel like saying "Gezundheit!" back to him each time.

It now looks like the Liberal Party of Canada, which brought the tax in, is going the same way. Both of the likely Liberal leadership candidates are now making noises along those lines. Chrystia Freeland, long a staunch Liberal climate warrior, is standing on a platform that specifically calls for the scrapping of the consumer carbon tax (although not the industry one). Even Mark Carney, the UN Special Envoy for Climate Action and Finance, is starting to distance himself from the Liberals' carbon tax policy.

I guess climate change measures don't win votes any more. The Liberals (and, I'm guessing, even the NDP, as we will probably see when election platforms are unveiled later this year) are trying to out-Tory the Tories. Sad.