The polls are clear: Canadians are looking for someone to lead us through this difficult patch. There was even a moment during Mark Carney’s Liberal leadership acceptance speech when it seemed as though he understood the assignment. He hinted that common sense would finally prevail, that he would dispense with a decade of Liberal orthodoxy that had demonized Canada’s oil and gas sector.
By promising to make Canada a “superpower in both clean and conventional energy,” our new prime minister seemed to be prioritizing Canadian jobs over his stated fear that climate change is a “tragedy on the horizon” that will lead to the loss of countless lives.
