The tag team of Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault and Natural Resources Minister Jonathan Wilkinson could be formidable in reducing carbon emissions, but it would come at the expense of the Alberta and Saskatchewan energy sector
, once one of the most senior ministers in the Liberal government and the de facto liaison between that government and the West, has been dropped completely.
The home base of the most senior figures in cabinet is also telling. Mr. Wilkinson and Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland like to remind people they were raised on the Prairies. But Ms. Freeland represents the downtown Toronto riding of University-Rosedale, and Mr. Wilkinson represents North Vancouver. Both MPs are Laurentian in outlook to the core.
Other provincially sensitive portfolios were given to MPs based in Atlantic Canada , far removed from Western interests. The federal Conservative Party is distracted by an internal debate over whether MPs have the right to sit in the House of Commons without proof of being vaccinated, and whether the Earth might indeed be flat.
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