This abominable scam of a climate election

Concern is skin deep: all the parties' climate platform policies are grossly insufficient, the climate villains are still in firm control, and any informed outsider would see a nation in deep climate denial.

The oilsands in Fort McMurray, Alta. The Trudeau Liberal government has been abysmal. Greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions continue to rise and the government has done everything in its power to expand fossil fuel production, including spending tens of billions of taxpayer dollars on a pipeline and claiming to be climate leaders while doing less than nothing but waste precious time, writes Bill Henderson. The Hill Times photograph by Jake Wright

Opinion

BY BILL HENDERSON

September 15, 2021

GIBSONS, B.C.—The pollsters report that climate change is Canadians' top election concern. The extreme weather—the heat dome, the wildfires, flooding, and even unseasonably cold summer weather—and the dire new IPCC report have galvanized attent...

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