What poll questions might look like if climate justice mattered
The Liberals’ strategy on Kinder Morgan relies on excluding moral truths from the national conversation
With a parliamentary majority at his back in the last years remaining to take the ambitious action needed to prevent extremely dangerous climate change, Justin Trudeau showed the nation last weekend that he is ready to step up in times of emergency.
Not, mind you, the increasingly alarming climate emergency, but rather the emergency of Kinder Morgan threatening to pull out of the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion project if the government cannot assure the company by May 31 that disruptions will end.
- Canadian state carrying out mass arrests to protect U.S. multinational’s right to profit
- It’s time to start calling Trudeau’s climate policy what it really is — unconscionable
With the same decisiveness with which he told Canadians he would be dropping the widely supported proportional representation electoral reform he once campaigned on, Trudeau quickly reassured Kinder Morgan the government was in talks to bail the company out with taxpayer money if necessary.
Trudeau’s gamble is that there exists a sizeable middle-of-the-road Canadian electorate who, with the right messaging, can be sold on policy that commits us to continued fossil fuel extraction.
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