World transitioning to a low-carbon economy, but Conservatives make us laggards

Today, there is not a conservative party—either at the federal or provincial level—that supports carbon pricing or has offered any kind of credible alternative to help Canada meet its international commitment to help the world head off costly and life-threatening climate change.

Federal Conservative Party Leader Andrew Scheer, Alberta premier-elect Jason Kenney, and Ontario Premier Doug Ford. But by putting short-term fossil-fuel politics first, Ford and Kenney, like Scheer, are in danger of themselves becoming political fossils, writes David Crane. The Hill Times photographs by Andrew Meade and Samantha Wright Allen

Opinion

BY DAVID CRANE

April 29, 2019

TORONTO—Are Conservative parties, federal and provincial, sacrificing Canada’s long-term interests for the prospect of short-term political gains? Rather than seeking to create a Canadian advantage in the transition to an innovative low-carbon world, they seem to be stuck in an older economy whe...

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