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FIRST READING: Mark Carney’s left-wing enemies

Groups that never really plagued Justin Trudeau are now coming for his successor

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FIRST READING: Mark Carney’s left-wing enemies Back to video

As Prime Minister Mark Carney continues to enjoy a sustained run of popularity, it’s been accompanied by a slew of policies typically only discussed in conservative circles.

These include tax cuts to fuel and income, a massive buildup of the Canadian Armed Forces, the proposed privatization of Canadian airports and new legislation making it easier to push through resource projects and order striking employees back to work.

One of the consequences is that Carney is now facing the kind of activist pushback that was largely unknown to his immediate predecessor, Justin Trudeau. Below, a cursory guide to Carney’s left-wing enemies.

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David Suzuki and the climate movement

Environmentalism was Carney’s full-time job only a few years ago. He was the United Nations Special Envoy on Climate Action and Finance, wrote a whole book about climate policy and ran a climate-based investment consortium that spun apart soon after he left to join Canadian politics.

So it’s been somewhat destabilizing to climate activists that Carney’s agenda has included a number of items they have traditionally despised, such as oil pipelines and ramped-up natural gas production.

Ecojustice is suing the Carney government on the grounds that it isn’t meeting its own carbon emissions targets. The group’s press release made clear it was taking on someone previously considered a friend.........

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