When it comes to climate change, Scheer should ignore the media

It might make perfect political sense for Andrew Scheer to skip the climate change parades; let the Liberals, Greens, and NDP split up that part of the voting pie which wants to pay higher carbon taxes, the Conservatives can have the 46 per cent of the pie, which don’t, all to themselves.

Climate change protesters, pictured Sept. 27, 2019, on Parliament Hill. It's estimated that 5,000 people took to the Hill for the protest. 'A recent Ipsos poll indicated that 46 per cent of Canadians do not want to spend any additional money in the form of taxes or higher costs of goods to combat climate change. Isn’t this evidence that many Canadians will put their economic welfare ahead of melting glaciers,' writes Gerry Nicholls. The Hill Times photograph by Sam Garcia

Opinion

BY GERRY NICHOLLS

October 7, 2019

OAKVILLE, ONT.—One fun thing about elections is how they suddenly turn journalists and columnists into masters of political strategy. Indeed, if you scan social media, or read newspaper opinion pages, or watch public affairs shows on TV, you’ll find legions of media pundits offering up their st...

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