Recent policies – and policy reversals – by Carney are designed to win over Conservative voters in the next election in pursuit of a Liberal majority

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If, as the Liberals say, Pierre Poilivere is a terrible leader and the Conservatives are bankrupt of ideas, why does Prime Minister Mark Carney keep stealing them?

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The latest example of Carney’s political plagiarism is his support for a new pipeline to deliver bitumen from Alberta’s oil sands to tidewater in B.C. and from there to Asian markets by ocean-going tankers.

But that’s just one of many instances of Carney governing like a Conservative – including reversing previous Liberal policies – using ideas first advocated by Poilievre and the Conservatives.

Others include