But if Kenney was prepared to laud Trudeau, 350.org co-founder Bill McKibben was not, asserting in a Guardian op ed that the government’s “climate hypocrisy” has hit a new low.

“There’s obviously something hideous about watching the Trumps and the Putins of the world gleefully shred our future,” he wrote. “But it’s disturbing in a different way to watch leaders pretend to care—a kind of gaslighting that can reduce you to numb nihilism. Trudeau, for all his charms, doesn’t get to have it both ways: if you can’t bring yourself to stop a brand new tar sands mine, then you’re not a climate leader.”