Tasha Kheiriddin/National Post: A recent Abacus poll shows the cost of living to be the dominant issue at 67 per cent; “the economy” comes second at 39 per cent. Climate change and the environment sit in ninth place, at 13 per cent — a drop from 29 per cent in 2023, when it was a top three concern.
In other words, Carney is perfectly safe, politically speaking, in approving projects that will eventually see an extra million barrels of oil a day pumped out of the oil sands, something that would have been unthinkable under the previous Liberal government of Justin Trudeau…