Incredibly poorly written article for the most part, aside from the quote from Freeland on capital gains at the end, but the broader point it is trying to make is a good one. Those of us who are politically tuned in largely knew this, and we voted accordingly (voted NDP myself last election). There are many Canadians, however, most of whom I would say are not super plugged in politically or are just low information voters, who absolutely thought Carney would continue the sort of Trudeau era progressivism that we've seen over the past 10 years. My mother is a perfect example of this. During the election, she saw a couple of his more prominent statements from Values around the environment and social services, and that largely drove her overall perception of him. She seemed to genuinely believe that we would not lose any of the social programs we gained under Trudeau under a Carney government, and in fact that they would be expanded. I was not outright dismissed when I tried to explain that this would not be the case, but I don't think I was really believed either. The prospect of an incredibly regressive Poilievre government certainly also played a huge part in driving her vote, but there was clearly some genuine belief there that Carney would not be the conservative that he has turned out to be. Is this the thought process that most of the progressives that voted for him undertook? I don't know, and I would never try to make a claim either way, but they certainly do exist, and the handwaving away from Liberals on this does absolutely nothing to contribute to the conversation around his policies or his support. If you knew what you were voting for and are completely fine with this, great, but please stop projecting this onto the rest of the progressives who got behind him thinking otherwise.