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Fire season is on the cusp of getting going again this year. I wonder if the tenor of the conversation will look different after summer?

I'll say it again: the carve-out for heating oil in Atlantic Canada was either a) deeply stupid and shortsighted because it focused everyone's attention on the tax at the exact moment Poillevre was looking for a wedge issue that wasn't pandering to Nazis, or b) the Liberals want to kill it anyways and sabotaging because of a a) is the most passive-aggressive, milquetoast way to do it that still gives them plausible deniabilty.

I lean towards b) because assuming the Liberals are milquetoast, billionaire-boot-polishing cowards who sit so hard on the fence that they wear out pants is probably a safe assumption.

Never forget, this is the LPC that, very early in their mandate, bought the Trans-Mountain Pipeline with plans to gift it back to private industry for pennies on the dollar. We can't do electoral reform without years of committees, but we can buy a pipeline for thirty billion dollars without consulting anyone. To think they care about decarbonizing the economy is laughable, they're just not as moustache-twirlingly evil about it as the Conservatives are.

"There are no alternatives available. So, the key intent of this policy, to lower emissions, is not being achieved at this time."

Carbon pollution pricing will contribute as much as one-third of Canada’s emissions reductions in 2030