Scheer spews out nonsense, calls it a climate plan

It’s hard to see how Andrew Scheer keeps a straight face, since in any other context he would, as a conservative, presumably be ridiculing the idea of trying to accomplish a society-wide goal by government intervention.
Conservative Party Leader Andrew Scheer unveiled his climate plan on June 19, but all it does is give him something to wave around, with no concrete emissions-reduction targets, writes Les Whittington.
OTTAWA—One of the problems of dealing with totally cynical, post-accuracy conservatism—whether in Europe or the U.S. or Canada—is that it ruins everyone’s sense of irony. So here we have Conservative leader Andrew Scheer being afforded credit for finally acknowledging climate change is real...

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