Leading Liberal leadership contender Mark Carney unveiled his new climate change plan Friday accusing Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre of lying to Canadians by telling them they have to choose between the environment and the economy, and then he told Canadians a far bigger whopper of his own.

Carney claimed he’s come up with a new, magical system for paying the costs of lowering industrial greenhouse gas emissions where only the “big polluters” pay while average Canadians end up better off financially.

Never mind that this is exactly the same discredited claim Prime Minister Justin Trudeau made to Canadians when he introduced his national carbon tax in 2019 that Carney – who used to be a passionate advocate of carbon taxes, arguing they weren’t high enough – now says he’ll immediately scrap as PM because it’s become too divisive.

In the real world, Carney knows when you charge people for something they’ve never had to pay for before – in this case emitting industrial greenhouse gases into the atmosphere – someone has to pay and it’s always the public through either higher taxes or higher prices as “big polluters” pass their increased costs on to us.

Indeed, as far as the federal government is concerned, all of us are the “big........

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