Tough campaign Kenney sounded a statesmanlike appeal to national unity in his victory speech
The consensus forecast of the impact of a United Conservative Party victory in Alberta on the rest of the country was: trouble ahead. Hadn’t its leader, Jason Kenney, promised to “stand up” for the province’s oil and gas industry, and “fight for a fair deal” in the federation?
And yet, there was Kenney on election night, sounding a statesmanlike appeal for national unity. The speech included no references to referendums or turning off the taps — but more than 40 mentions of “Canada,” “Canadian” and variants. But the chances of the new government making good on its more extravagant threats must be considered remote. Both appear in the platform, it’s worth noting, in the conditional. “Turn off the taps” legislation would be used “should continue to obstruct pipelines.
There is little doubt of the cap’s importance to achieving the federal goal of reducing Canada’s overall emissions by 30 per cent from 2005 levels by 2030, in line with our commitments at the Paris Agreement on Climate Change: a target we are nowhere close to meeting, nor even visibly headed toward.
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