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Originally Posted by simmer2
Not sure if you have hired people in your role (that's not a jab, just a question), but I've found it easy to get fooled by resumes. I've had people whose resumes are OK and turned out great, and had people whose resumes are great and have turned out just OK.
I like Carney a lot more than Trudeau. He's obviously bright and has a pedigree. But a bright person can still make bad decisions...and I worry that his Climate Change stance will end up leading to a continual series of bad decisions that the Liberals started when they moved forward with the Carbon Tax and caused a huge increase in our debt loads and were a huge part of lowest GDP per Capita relative to our peers.
I see more debt load, bad energy policies (ie pushing green over Oil & Gas), an increase in government spending and taxes, and in general an underperforming economy for another 5 years.
I hope that doesn't happen and Carney can prove me wrong. But it's been 10 years...hard to get excited about thinking that Carney will maybe be different.
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I think that is probably a fair assessment that Carney will continues to to implement carbon taxation in a similar manner to the EU. That will put a small drag on the economy but a stable carbon price is better for industry than one that will rotate by government. If an industrial carbon tax is a conservative loss away companies will not invest capital to mitigate and not build to projects. Uncertainty is not good for business.
For me I’m voting for Carney because he has the expertise to manage to impacts of Carbon transition without just following ideology.
My decision is almost entirely based on who I believe will have evidence based policies and be willing to adapt policy when it isn’t working.
The other part of my decision is based on fear. I equate PP to Smith and don’t believe there would be meaningful socially economic policy differences between the two. And Smith is essentially a trip back to the spoil system.