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Pierre Poilievre’s plan for tackling climate change remains hazy
OTTAWA—Smoky skies from raging wildfires cleared over Ottawa on Thursday. But details of how a Conservative government led by Pierre Poilievre would fight climate change remained hazy.
The fires and the smoke blanketing big cities in Canada and the United States brought the urgency of the climate crisis to the fore — and with that came pressure on Poilievre’s Conservatives to spell out exactly what they would do about it.
He rarely touched the subject in his successful bid last year for leadership of a party that has struggled over two federal election cycles to articulate a vision on climate change that resonates with voters.
Liberal MPs heckled him on that very point during his marathon speech against the federal budget on Wednesday, raising the fact that Conservative members voted for a motion at their last policy conference that declared climate change isn’t real.
“Yes, it is real,†Poilievre said in response, and on Thursday, he told reporters that his party’s climate plan — which will likely be part of the Conservative platform in the next general election campaign — will aim to reduce those emissions.
Pierre Poilievre’s plan for tackling climate change remains hazy
OTTAWA—Smoky skies from raging wildfires cleared over Ottawa on Thursday. But details of how a Conservative government led by Pierre Poilievre would fight climate change remained hazy.
The fires and the smoke blanketing big cities in Canada and the United States brought the urgency of the climate crisis to the fore — and with that came pressure on Poilievre’s Conservatives to spell out exactly what they would do about it.
He rarely touched the subject in his successful bid last year for leadership of a party that has struggled over two federal election cycles to articulate a vision on climate change that resonates with voters.
Liberal MPs heckled him on that very point during his marathon speech against the federal budget on Wednesday, raising the fact that Conservative members voted for a motion at their last policy conference that declared climate change isn’t real.
“Yes, it is real,†Poilievre said in response, and on Thursday, he told reporters that his party’s climate plan — which will likely be part of the Conservative platform in the next general election campaign — will aim to reduce those emissions.
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