Don’t think for a second that this Guilbeault has matured since he pulled his illegal CN Tower stunt
that has pushed the price of fossil fuels to near record levels. And Guilbeault finds himself in charge of the environment portfolio in a government that purchased the Trans Mountain pipeline that he so steadfastly opposed.
But don’t think for a second that this means Guilbeault has matured since he pulled his illegal CN Tower stunt two decades ago at the age of 31. When he first ran for the Liberals in the Montreal riding of Laurier—Sainte-Marie in 2019, Guilbeault hung a large photo of himself hanging off the tower in his campaign office. He also refused to condemn some Extinction Rebellion activists who had forced the closure of a Montreal-area bridge.
This was likely in an effort to placate some of the more extreme elements of the environmental movement, who accused him of selling out when he ran for the Liberals, a party that the radical left sees as being too soft on the climate file.
Given his background, it’s clear that by appointing Guilbeault to the environment and climate change portfolio, Trudeau was looking to make a statement: despite saying during the
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