Why is Mark Carney undermining our environment?

When push comes to shove, the economy matters and the environment loses. But when the environment loses, we all lose. That's a lesson Mark Carney seems not to have learned. 
Prime Minister Mark Carney, pictured June 10, 2026, on the Hill.

VICTORIA, B.C.—I have noted several times recently in these columns that Prime Minister Mark Carney’s mandate letter to his cabinet a year ago does not identify the environment as one of the government’s seven priorities. Indeed, the word ‘environment’ is not eve...

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