OTTAWA—The federal Conservatives lost the last two general elections with very different approaches to the dire threat of the climate crisis.
In 2019, under Andrew Scheer, the party gestured towards the seriousness of the challenge but offered no detailed plan to cut the greenhouse gas emissions that cause it. The centrepiece was a promise to tear down the governing Liberals’ national carbon pricing scheme — lampooned as a costly and ineffectual “tax” by the staunchly pro-fossil fuel Tories and their provincial counterparts across the country.
Green = Impoverishment
