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Prime Minister Mark Carney’s pre-Canada Day pivot away from Justin Trudeau’s failed $200-billion-plus climate strategy, after supporting it up to late last year, is a classic example of what makes the public cynical about politics.

GOLDSTEIN: Carney's pivot on climate change the right move, but is it real? Back to video

The timing was strategic, after Parliament had adjourned for the summer and the day before Canada Day, when Canadians were thinking about barbecues and fireworks, not industrial greenhouse gas emission targets.

On one level, it’s the right decision, assuming Carney can be trusted, which is open to question given that prior to entering politics, he was the UN’s special envoy for climate change, co-chair of the Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero, and the leading global corporate advocate for higher carbon taxes.

Now he says Trudeau’s plan, while well-intentioned, and suited for the time it was created, would in today’s world reduce Canada’s economic growth and increase western........

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