If anybody could stomach watching Mark Carney’s interview on the Daily Show, they would have witnessed a public figure effortlessly fielding a string of puff ball questions posed to him by a host who could barely contain his unbridled enthusiasm. I was surprised that Jon Stewart didn’t lean over the desk and kiss him.

In response to a question about how Carney would be “left holding the carbon tax bag,” which Stewart argued was “not politically feasible,” Carney hinted that he would target the oil and gas industry with climate policy.

“Almost 30 per cent of our emissions from Canada come from the production and shipment of oil to the United States,” said Carney. “So part of it is cleaning that up, getting those emissions down, more than changing, in a very short period of time, the way Canadians live.”