The political plagiarism of Mark Carney

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If, as the Liberals say, Pierre Poilivert is a terrible leader, and the Conservatives have no ideas, why does Prime Minister Mark Carney keep stealing them?

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Carney's latest example of political plagiarism is his support for the new pipeline transport bitumen from Alberta's oil sands to the tidal waters of British Columbia and from there to Asian markets by ocean tanker.

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But this is just one of many examples of Carney governing as a conservative – including reversing previous liberal policies – using ideas pioneered by Poilievre and the conservatives.

Others include ending the consumer carbon taxtax cuts for the middle class, an end to capital gains tax hikes, lower immigration rates, a delay in the electric vehicle mandate, bond reform, and a GST cut for new home buyers.

All of these policies—and policy changes—by Carney are aimed at bringing Conservative voters to the liberal side in the next election in pursuit of a liberal majority.

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The political impetus for this policy came from the Conservatives.

Of course, liberals will argue that they pursued their policies—and changed policies—more responsibly than Poilievre and the conservatives would have done.

But this does not change the fact that the political impetus for this policy came from the Conservatives.

Poilievre, for example, warned that the lofty immigration targets the Liberals implemented after the pandemic would inevitably lead to a housing crisis, which is what happened, while Liberal immigration ministers suggested that anyone who criticized their reckless policies was racist.

This continued until they finally admitted that Poilievre was right, that they really have allowed their immigration, foreign student and temporary foreign worker programs to exceed Canada's capacity to accept them and belatedly, although somewhat sluggishly, began to lower them.

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Even so, it will take a long time for the Canadian economy to recover from this liberal mistake.

Indeed, during the leadership race, which he eventually won, Carney himself made reference to the fact that Justin Trudeau's Liberal government, which he now hoped to lead, had allowed immigration levels to get out of control. That's one reason, he says, that the Canadian economy was weak long before U.S. President Donald Trump launched his trade and tariff war against us.

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The Liberals have allowed spending, deficits and operating costs to spiral out of control.

Carney also agreed with Poilevre and the Conservatives during the federal election that during a decade of Liberal rule, the government had allowed its spending, deficits and operating costs to get out of control, another reason for Canada's weakening pre-Trump economy, which he promised to fix.

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The fact that he didn't fix it in his November budget this does not change the fact that Poilievre was right in these matters.

Of course, it's nothing new about the Liberals stealing their ideas from the Conservatives, and for that matter, the New Democrats, as we all saw in the Trudeau era.

This is one of the reasons why they are Canada's most successful national party – in power over 70% of the time since 1900.

Liberals grow and shed their political policies much like a snake sheds its skin.

A cynic would say this is because they have no political principles, but rather that their positions evolve in response to voters' concerns.

In some ways we should be grateful, given that without the presence of conservatives many liberal politicians would be even worse than they are.

However, the best way to ensure that conservative policies are implemented by those who support them is to elect conservatives and eliminate liberal middlemen.

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