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What was Mark Carney thinking when he walked back the digital services tax?
Prime Minister Mark Carney’s government rescinded the DST after U.S. President Donald Trump's announcement that he was ending trade talks with Canada over the tax.Sean Kilpatrick/The Canadian Press
Taylor C. Noakes is an independent journalist and public historian.
So much for elbows up.
Prime Minister Mark Carney briskly walked back Canada’s digital services tax (DST) late Sunday, after U.S. President Donald Trump’s threats to stop trade talks. There was not much of even a hint of a fight from our Prime Minister.
When Mr. Carney was elected in late April, we thought we were getting a real fighter, someone who campaigned on the idea that the “the old relationship between Canada and the United States, based on steadily increasing integration, is over.”
Canadians could be forgiven for interpreting this literally, as the deranged American President had launched an unprovoked, unnecessary and wholly unwarranted trade war against us. Mr. Trump provided ludicrous © The Globe and Mail
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