One generous reporter decided to cut Scheer some slack and ask an easy question: “Can you point to a single policy in your platform that you believe shows that you do support women’s rights?”
Apparently that was a tricky question for Scheer.
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Andrew Scheer Got Busted for a Pointless Resume Lie
For an election cycle often centred around party leaders’
personalities, the Conservatives’ haven’t managed to give Andrew Scheer
much of one.
personalities, the Conservatives’ haven’t managed to give Andrew Scheer
much of one.
This has prompted multiple outlets to ask who
the man is and what makes him tick. Scheer likely welcomes efforts to
get his message out there, but got more than he bargained for this
Saturday when the Globe and Mail published a profile that fact-checked his short non-political resume, specifically his time as “insurance broker.”
Nobody’s going to oppose planting more trees—and if they’re put in the right places, they’ll be less susceptible to wildfires.
But in a 2017 study, researchers at the Potsdam Institute and the University of Exeter advised that planting more trees will not be a panacea to keep the average global temperature rise below 2 C since the start of the Industrial Revolution.
But here’s the problem for Canadian voters: neither the federal Conservatives nor the federal Liberals appear interested in curtailing the production of fossil fuels for export to other countries.
But until the two politicians with the best chance of becoming prime minister recognize the reality of the production problem, future generations are probably doomed to living on a hellfire of a planet.
The world will invariably see increasing losses of human life due to heat waves and extreme weather events.
But one party—the Greens—is offering the most explicit promise when it comes to the production of fossil fuels.
“Since producing and burning fossil fuels is the largest source of emissions, we need to keep fossil fuels in the ground, and retool society to run on non-polluting, renewable energy sources,” the Greens say in their platform. “This is entirely possible, according to studies by the Stanford University researchers and the Deep Decarbonization Pathways Project.”
Half of Ontario’s population says Doug Ford’s government will sway their vote: poll | News
The poll shows that overall, this equates to four-in-ten (42%)
Ontario residents saying Ford’s government will dissuade them from
voting for the Conservative party.