The reason the federal Liberals can never be trusted on the carbon tax is that even as they seemingly abandon it, they refuse to admit they were wrong to introduce it.

Instead of apologizing to Canadians for their half-baked, poorly explained policy that divided the country, while they insulted anyone who opposed it as wanting to let the planet burn, the Liberals even now refuse to accept responsibility for what they did.

In announcing what he described as his new climate change plan on Friday, basically Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s old climate change plan with a few tweaks led by scrapping a relatively minor component of it known as the consumer fuel charge – while retaining its much larger industrial carbon pricing component – Liberal leadership frontrunner Mark Carney blamed its demise on Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre.

“When Pierre Poilievre says we have to choose between fighting climate change and growing our economy, he’s lying to us,” Carney alleged, adding public opposition to the carbon tax was “fed by misinformation and lies quite frankly by the leader of the opposition.”

Accusing Poilievre of lying when you were a global cheerleader for carbon taxes up to a couple of coffees ago – even complaining they weren’t high enough – shows........

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