Rustad, a former cabinet minister, was ousted from the caucus of the B.C. Liberals, now B.C. United, in August 2022 after he boosted a social media post casting doubt on climate change science and urging people to "celebrate CO2."
In posts on both Facebook and Twitter, Rustad shared a graphic and post arguing that people had been "hoodwinked" by climate change science and they should be glad CO2 is being emitted into the atmosphere.
A statement issued Wednesday by the B.C. Conservatives did not deny climate change.
"Our changing climate is real, and man is impacting our climate" said Rustad in a statement about the party's climate policy.
The statement then said British Columbians are not facing an existential threat from the changing climate and climate change is not a crisis.
Goddamn, and people vote for this group. How embarrassing.