Pierre Poilievre poisoned Canadians against the most effective tool we have for fighting climate change. Why on earth is the NDP going along?
If the federal carbon tax is not yet dead, it has suffered a mortal wound.
Pierre Poilievre’s Conservatives, enjoying a 20-point lead in the polls, have a kid-on-Christmas-morning enthusiasm for repealing it as their first order of business. The Tory position is hardly new, but last Thursday federal NDP leader Jagmeet Singh signalled his intention to disavow the carbon tax that his party has consistently supported in Parliament. The NDP says they will propose an alternative climate plan, details TBD, but stressed that the Liberal carbon tax puts too much of a burden on working people. Which is exactly the Conservatives’ argument against it.
All eco-whinging is an attack on the poor, it’s just another form of control exercised by the elite who can afford such luxury values.
