Prime Minister Mark Carney has the opportunity to craft a climate policy that makes sense to Canadian taxpayers – versus the political insanity of the Justin Trudeau era – but the question is whether he is ultimately a pragmatist or an ideologue.

Prior to becoming PM, Carney was definitely an ideologue on climate change.

As the United Nations Special Envoy on Climate Action and Finance, and co-chair and founder of the Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net-Zero, Carney argued carbon taxes were too low, and that his organization was “relentlessly, ruthlessly, absolutely focused on the transition to net zero” emissions of industrial greenhouse gases.

But in his first months as PM, Carney has shown signs of pragmatism compared to his previous rhetoric.

No doubt he’s aware that for Canada to a

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