Deconstructing the Conservative Party’s climate plan | rabble.ca
Conservative leader Andrew Scheer cannot own the activities of
Progressive Conservative governments as his party’s “proud legacy”
because the PC governments were progressive and the Conservative Party
is not.
Scheer’s claim that Stephen Harper was responsible for the “net
decline of greenhouse gas emissions between 2007 and 2015” is also
bogus. The Harper government closed research laboratories, gutted
environmental regulations and threatened bird clubs with Canada Revenue
Agency audits for even mentioning “climate change” in the same sentence
as “species loss.” There was a big drop in Canada’s greenhouse gas
emissions that closely corresponds to the 2008 recession which led to a
corresponding slowdown in fossil fuel production. Our emission levels
have been increasing since 2009.