Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre has been vindicated on multiple policy fronts, as the Liberal government under Prime Minister Mark Carney now adopts positions it once ridiculed. The editorial argues that during Canada's economic decade of neglect from 2015 to 2025, Poilievre was right on pipelines, the carbon tax, immigration levels, and other issues, while the Liberals were wrong.
Pipeline epiphany
On the sudden Liberal enthusiasm for pipelines, Poilievre was correct on the substance years ago. Canada is the world's fourth-largest producer of oil and fifth-largest producer of natural gas, yet kept its resources landlocked, selling at huge discounts to the United States. Carney now says building new infrastructure is vital to energy security, national prosperity, and Canadian unity, but the main impediments were put in place by his Liberal predecessor, Justin Trudeau.
Other policy conversions
Carney’s epiphany on pipelines is one example of many Liberal conversions. Poilievre and the Conservatives led the way on ending the consumer carbon tax, introducing a middle-class tax cut (Poilievre’s would have been larger), and killing the capital gains tax hike. The Liberals also followed on reducing immigration levels—which Poilievre predicted would cause a housing crisis—postponing EV mandates, bail reform, and cutting the GST for new home buyers.
Liberal strategy
The Liberals have become Canada's most successful political party by lacking principles and borrowing from left and right as needed. Poilievre, according to polls, is a classic example of a political prophet mocked in his own land. The editorial concludes that it is good he is around to tell Liberals what to think before they think it.
