Details aside, Scheer’s climate change nod an important step forward

With all the major parties recognizing they need to compete on climate policy, that should create openings to address the issue seriously—not dodge it.
Conservative Party Leader Andrew Scheer speaks to supporters at an October 2018 rally. Tim Powers writes that he said a quiet ‘hallelujah’ when Mr. Scheer said climate change was real and needs addressing.
OTTAWA—Last week, Andrew Scheer gave the last of his series of major policy speeches designed to give voters a sense of some of his thinking and his would-be government’s approach to the key issues of our times. Previously, he had addressed predictable safe-ground matters for the Conservatives, ...

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