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But he still has a left wing stance on those issues.
Lowering taxes on capital is not a left wing stance. It just isn't.
He didnt lower taxes on capital gains though. He chose not to raise the tax on capital gains. A Right wing stance would be to lower or remove.
He did say he wikl lower two taxes. He said he would lower the income tax rate for the bottom tax bracket by 1% and remove the carbon tax and replaced it with a carbon rebate programming for Canadians. He also said he would work with a bunch of other countries to tarrifs goods that were not up to carbon emission standards. So that together is a much stronger climate change impact than the carbon tax.
Yes, he's a centrist and he's to the right of Trudeau. These are fiscally conservative centrist policies. He's at the right wing of the Liberal party. He's not Trump, he's not a Conservative, nobody says he is.
But for the love of Tommy Douglas' ghost, don't try to sell me any of this as ...left wing. Carney is no social-democrat or democratic socialist.
If you think that pointing that out is somehow deriding Carney, that's a "you" problem. There is nothing wrong with being a centrist, I don't understand why you need to convince that the man is something he just isn't.