While I do not wish to underestimate the mental retardation of some Canadians, I get the inkling that we are seeing the Kamala effect here. This leadership race is just as much a formality and the Liberals want stay on the path Klaus Schwab Trudeau set them on. Carney may claim that the will abolish the carbon tax, but he is looking for a workaround because he has complete tunnel vision when it comes to his plans for a net-zero economy. He has already stated that he wants to impose tariffs on countries that do have acceptable carbon policies. Similarly, he is proposing an incentive structure where he will force "encourage" Canadians to make the "right" choice by buying more expensive "carbon-friendly" options. Never mind his bloviating about "less spending, more investing" when the two are not mutually exclusive; it's basically cooking the books the same way the LPC used immigration to artificially inflate GDP.
The problem with his theories on the "new" carbon economy is that theories rarely survive contact with reality. Reality has demonstrated that net-zero policies are doomed to failure time and again, but ideologues like Carney only double down in their delusion that forcing the same policy even harder on each attempt yields the desired result. Canada is a giant pressure chamber right now. The massive deficits the LPC have run, rampant crime, constant sweeping scandals and corruption under the rug, unfettered immigration. . . it only increases the pressure. Well, the chamber is buckling and the metal fatigue is now visible. Our only hope is that the powers that be open the release valve to relieve the pressure. The LPC won't do it. Hell, I'm not sure the Conservatives can turn the valve enough to stop the nation from exploding, but I am relatively confident that the Canadians with a modicum of self-preservation can see that the crisis we have is existential and Carney isn't going to save us. Just the opposite.