The Patrick Brown bogeyman may have faded, but his ghost is still hanging over the race to replace him as leader of Ontario’s Tories. No cap and trade, no carbon tax, no carbon pricing — just a blank page. ( Justin Tang / THE CANADIAN PRESS )And yet, like a skilled magician onstage, he still pulled off the remarkable feat of sounding like he meant it — while casting his rivals as somehow insincere for lacking his supposed convictions on carbon. Ford shamelessly claimed credit, boasting that if he hadn’t been the one to “bring them along kicking and screaming about the carbon tax, we’d still have the carbon tax.” Fair point, even if it’s for the worse. Even without Patrick Brown onstage, it was an oddly disruptive and destructive debate.

Source: thestar March 01, 2018 02:41 UTC