He has distanced himself from Trudeau's eco-agenda. Will he now do the same on the First Nations file?

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Could it be just a year ago that Justin Trudeau announced his resignation as prime minister?

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Mark Carney won the leadership on an accelerated schedule and began dismantling the Trudeau policy agenda even more quickly. The new prime minister boasted about the cancellation of the consumer carbon tax with the old prime minister sitting in the front row. Don’t let the door hit you on the way out.

It was as if the Liberal party had, vis-à-vis Trudeau, adopted Katy Perry’s Roar as its theme song for 2025: “You held me down, but I got up/ Get ready ’cause I’ve had enough/ … ‘Cause I am a champion and you’re gonna hear me roar.”

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The champion, after breaking up with Trudeau, roared to its fourth consecutive election victory. Trudeau was invited to the throne speech and, trying to keep the old flame flickering, greeted King Charles III in the Senate chamber wearing garish sneakers. The King and Carney instead wore their prominent Order of Canada medallions.

Canada’s sovereign announced plans to put Trudeau’s agenda in the rear-view mirror. Out went the capital gains tax increase, in came a middle-class tax cut. No talk of “phasing out” the oilsands, but instead a promise to build, build, build, which in Canada means natural resource infrastructure.

The government was soon smiling on the very LNG projects about which Trudeau said there was “no business case.” It signed — in Alberta! — an agreement to agree at some point to build a pipeline. As an added bonus, Trudeau’s designated mascot for environmental extremism, Steven Guilbeault, resigned from cabinet. Don’t let........

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