Taylor Noakes: What was Mark Carney thinking when he walked back the digital services tax?

Here’s the thing: Mr. Carney was wrong to cave to Mr. Trump, for there is nothing wrong with the DST. American tech giants that provide digital services in Canada – such as Amazon.com Inc., Uber Technologies Inc., Airbnb Inc., Google and X Corp. (formerly Twitter) – have arguably never been taxed properly, and the DST was intended to both update the tax code as much as generate tax revenue from exceptionally profitable businesses that were given a tax break for far too long…