The small inner circle of veteran Trudeau operatives seems to be showing signs of exhaustion from years of managing potential disaster, and this time, they made it worse
It’s true, as Natural Resources Minister Jonathan Wilkinson told the Commons last week, that heating oil is different. It is particularly dirty, he noted, and far more expensive than natural gas. But it is hard for lower-income families with oil furnaces to switch to another type of heating – say a heat pump.for three years: People need time, and money – in the form of free heat pumps for lower-income folks – to adjust. The last part makes sense.
The Liberal government that didn’t roll out heat-pump subsidies back in 2018 found people in 2023 screaming about heating-oil increases sparked byTo top it off, because Atlantic provinces had previously used their own carbon programs full of loopholes, carbon taxes on heating oil only went into effect there in July – all at once. The 24 Liberal MPs in Atlantic Canada faced an outcry.
That turns the logic of carbon taxes upside down. People who fought for them such as former environment minister Catherine McKenna, who burned a lot of her own political capital to bring in carbon levies, criticized the Liberal flip-flop In 2023, there have been a number of instances where Mr. Trudeau and the people around him have apparently failed to notice that they are sitting in hot water until it started to boil.
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