But hey, this is politics, and what’s a little boot polish between friends, as long as they are united under the glorious banner of global warming. It is the clash between the virtue merchants of climate change, and the future of Alberta. That if they could politically get away with it, they’d shut Canada’s oil and gas industry down in a moment. In the most reckless fashion, he gave a speech declaring he wanted “more Quebecers, more francophones, to vote Liberal” in order to stop those under the thumb of the oil industry, meaning in particular Jason Kenney and Alberta. Such is the hypnotic pull to be seen as a great fighter against global climate change, it blots out the perception of what he may be stirring up in the country he presently leads.

Source: National Post October 18, 2019 18:19 UTC