Just how conservative is Carney’s government?

Andrew Coyne/The Globe and Mail: What it mostly shows, however, is how pliable a concept the “centre” is. Not long ago, a party that favoured the kinds of policies the Carney government has been pursuing would have been considered well to the right. We know, because that party was the Conservative Party. For most of the period from 2012 to 2023 the Conservatives were at or below 33 per cent in the polls, about where they are now. That put them to the right of public opinion – too far right, according to some…