In perhaps his most disappointing policy announcement thus far, Carney has indicated he will scrap the Liberal’s plan to increase the capital gains inclusion rate. This mildly progressive measure was directed squarely at the passive incomes of the wealthiest sliver of Canadians and would have served as a healthy revenue generator. Instead, it’s destined for the scrapheap.
Journalists hold politicians to account, and ask them to justify their decisions. If journalists don’t ask accusatory questions, then they aren’t doing their job.
It’s totally reasonable to say that journalists should be harder on Poilievre, but that doesn’t mean they should stop asking Carney questions.
My perspective is that I don’t think the attacks on Carney are warranted, a lot of them feel unreasonable and unrealistic.
If Carney’s assets are in a blind trust, he can’t list them. If they’re in a blind trust it doesn’t matter what he owned 6 months ago, because the trust may have reallocated some or all of those assets already.
The question really is “how are you enriching yourself at our expense” and honestly I do agree that journalists need to look at themselves here. I am not hearing these questions about the other side of the aisle that they’re trying to see “unbiased” towards. And that doesn’t mean that asking Carney questions has to stop, but I’m getting fed up with the coverage.