Canadians wondering how much Prime Minister Mark Carney’s “climate competitiveness strategy” is going to cost them will have to keep waiting.

Given that Liberal climate-change programs have cost taxpayers more than $200 billion to date, or almost $5,000 for every Canadian, it’s time for some answers.

Despite billing his climate competitiveness strategy as “a central pillar of the government’s plan to become the strongest economy in the G7,” Carney’s budget devoted only nine of 406 pages to the topic that were mainly a statement of future intentions.

When he announced his climate-change strategy while running for the Liberal leadership in January, Carney said its key component — beyond cancelling the