Absolutely devastating results for the Liberals.
To get a sense of the extent to which Canadians are rejecting the extremism of Steven Guilbeault’s eco-radical agenda and are instead embracing the more pragmatic approach of Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre, consider this:
By a two-to-one margin, Canadians pick the Conservatives over the Liberals as the best party to lead on climate change.
According to the latest Angus Reid poll, 28% pick the Conservatives as the best party on the issue, while just 14% pick the Liberals. Meanwhile, 16% pick the NDP.
So, what is happening here?
Canadians are picking up on the fact that the carbon tax and other Liberal ‘climate policies’ have simply left our country worse off economically, with no impact on global emissions.
In fact, Canada has the worst record among G7 countries when it comes to reducing our emissions, meaning we are doing far worse than some countries – like the U.S. – that don’t even have a carbon tax and have far stronger economies.
And now, the Liberals are unable to hide this.
Because Pierre Poilievre is such an effective communicator – the best the Conservatives have had in quite a long time – he has successfully challenged the Liberal narrative on the carbon tax.
He has helped shift the perspective of many Canadians from seeing the carbon tax as an environmental policy to seeing it for what it really is – an anti-prosperity tax grab by the Liberal government.
Poilievre has also tied the carbon tax to the deepening cost-of-living crisis, and has emphasized the fact that incentivizing technological innovation is a far more realistic and effective path to addressing climate issue.
Poilievre has been so effective at this that the Liberals surrendered to his framing of the issue by giving an exemption on the carbon tax for home heating oil. But, by targeting the policy to a region that is more pro-Liberal while leaving a vast majority of Canadians to keep paying the tax on home heating, the Liberals generated further political outrage, and thus not only weakened their own justification for the carbon tax but proved beyond doubt it was a politically-motivated tax policy, not a climate policy.
And so, the Conservatives now have the upper hand on environmental issues as Canadians look more and more willing to reject the extremist policies being peddled by Guilbeault and his ilk.
Spencer Fernando
