It’s hard to believe that a person born and educated in the Province of Alberta would not question the past three years of continuous drought conditions in that province. Pierre Poilievre came to Ontario to find an electoral district that would elect someone with a French name. You would think the frequency of tornados and the changeable weather patterns here, in Ontario, would make him wonder.
But it is Poilievre’s petulant support for high carbon fuels from Alberta that must make him want to deny concerns for climate change. It hardly matters to him that the majority of scientific study supports concern about climate change and the need to alleviate the worsening conditions.
It is this petulance that brings into question Poilievre’s suitability to lead the conservative party. It is this petulance that raises the question of his suitability to be a member of parliament.
It is expected that if Poilievre could ever become prime minister, he would follow in the footsteps of Stephen Harper and pull Canada out of the various climate change treaties in which we have become involved since the liberal government took over in 2015. He is already fully committed to the building of a major Liquified Natural Gas (LNG) in the Saguenay region of Quebec. This project has already been denied by both the federal and Quebec provincial governments.
The rule of thumb is if you want incentives to buy electric vehicles, don’t ask Pierre Poilievre. If you want government support for pipelines for an increased output from the Alberta tar sands, Poilievre’s your guy.
What is less clear is Poilievre’s support for the so-called ‘Freedom Convoy’ that came to Ottawa last winter. These people are pathetically ignorant of Canada’s constitution and the charter of rights and freedoms. They demand freedom from the so-called gate keepers in Ottawa without being able to tell us what these gate keepers do.
Yet Poilievre welcomes these people to Ottawa where they became less and less welcome as time went on. We hear that some of them have even joined the conservative party to vote for Poilievre. It seems like a wasted membership fee.
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