NDP leader Jagmeet Singh is determined not to be outflanked at the next election by Justin Trudeau’s Liberals, as his predecessor Tom Mulcair was in 2015. As a result, he introduced the climate change motion to embarrass Trudeau over his environmental record. The problem is that, until this week, the NDP leader has supported a liquified natural gas development that includes a pipeline to northern B.C. While expensive and just as likely to increase the cost of everything as the carbon tax, crucially, the cost will be on producers, not consumers. The NDP motion left all three major parties haemorrhaging.

Source: National Post May 15, 2019 22:08 UTC