The Conservative Party of Canada voted at their annual policy convention recently on the issue of whether to include some more environmental statements in their constitution. Answer: Nope.
They couldn't even agree to include a statement that "climate change is real" and that the party is "willing to act", a rather innocent-sounding motion that nevertheless met with a 54-46 defeat. The Conservatives therefore become the country's first climate change-denying party, not a good look in Canada, where a recognition of climate change has always shown itself in polls to be an important plank of national electability.
Anyway, nothing daunted, their Glorious Leader Erin O'Toole has chosen to pretend that nothing actually happened, or at least that if it did happen they didn't really mean it: "I am the leader and this is an important issue for me. The debate is closed." Debate? What debate?
Well, I don't think that the Conservatives were particularly well-placed to fight a summer election anyway, if that is indeed what we end up with. But this has certainly done them no favours.
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