Since day one, Prime Minister Mark Carney has tried to convince Canadians that he’s not former prime minister Justin Trudeau. And until now, he has succeeded.
Early on, Carney took decisive action to try to clearly distance himself from the Trudeau legacy. He signed an Order in Council to set the consumer carbon tax rate to zero. He promised to scrap the Trudeau government’s planned capital gains tax hike. And he made a middle-class income tax cut the centrepiece of his election platform, recognizing Canadians were hard done by after years of Liberal tax hikes.
