Fawcett: Method to Carney’s madness

Max Fawcett: For many Canadians, though, the cost of Carney’s commitment with Smith overrides any potential payout it might deliver. A new oil pipeline, and especially one through northern British Columbia, is simply a non-starter, a non-negotiable, particularly when an existing pipeline — Trans Mountain — could be upgraded further instead. But one of the surprising strengths that Carney has shown as a politician is his ability to deploy strategic ambiguity in moments like this. He described Donald Trump as a “transformative” president in one of their earliest meetings, a word that seemed to please Trump while communicating his actual position to anyone who was paying closer attention. This MOU strikes me as one giant wink to the climate community — one that commits Ottawa to supporting an oil pipeline Carney knows will never get built…