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OPINION: Carney stumbles out the gate on carbon taxes

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Prime minister hopeful Mark Carney showed he doesn't have an answer to the most important question: Will he keep the carbon tax? Carney ’s campaign leaked to the media that he would scrap the tax.

Carney should have seen that question coming, but instead he went wonky and wobbly.

Carney 's stance on carbon tax is clear as mud and bad for two key reasons: he’d replace it with something more “effective” The carbon tax has been very effective at sucking a lot of money out of the wallets of Canadians .

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