In Atlantic Canada, where the Liberals have dominated to different degrees in the past three elections, the government's major climate policy plank, carbon pricing, is a bust.
In Atlantic Canada, where the Liberals have dominated to different degrees in the past three elections, the government’s major climate policy plank, carbon pricing, is a bust.
It’s amazing to me how quickly we forgot that carbon pricing was a conservative policy proposal. It was literally a concession the Liberals made to the Progressive Conservatives in the early days of planning to address “global warming” back in the days of the Kyoto Accord. PC’s wanted market solutions instead of regulatory heavy handedness to shape Canada’s way forward. LPC preferred cap and trade, but couldn’t get it passed, so they agreed to support carbon pricing because it was better than nothing.
Fast forward to today and suddenly carbon pricing is Liberal policy and ignore/deny is the CPC strategy.
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It’s amazing to me how quickly we forgot that carbon pricing was a conservative policy proposal. It was literally a concession the Liberals made to the Progressive Conservatives in the early days of planning to address “global warming” back in the days of the Kyoto Accord. PC’s wanted market solutions instead of regulatory heavy handedness to shape Canada’s way forward. LPC preferred cap and trade, but couldn’t get it passed, so they agreed to support carbon pricing because it was better than nothing.
Fast forward to today and suddenly carbon pricing is Liberal policy and ignore/deny is the CPC strategy.
Conservatives? Moving goal posts?
The heck you say!