Canada

The carbon tax was a good thing. Unfortunately Trudeau's gov't didn't explain it well enough for people to know how it worked and who would receive it.

Too many just jumped on the PP bandwagon instead of looking at their account balances 4 times a year.

I'm not super comfortable with a lot of what he's saying, but it would be pretty tough to make the case that "not enough action" isn't an accurate statement.

According to new data released from Environment and Climate Change Canada, the country will fall well short of its 2030 climate goal — just halfway to its target of a 40 to 45 per cent reduction in greenhouse gas emissions below 2005 levels.

I'm deeply skeptical that his approach is going to do any better, but I support the idea of boosting investment in clean(er) alternatives. And he did get Alberta to agree to increase their industrial carbon price.

Is the goal to upset people or to avoid a climate crisis?

The carbon tax was in place long enough to make this a fact-based assessment. Any evidence that it helped?

I would like to see a government that can be effective without people “foaming at the mouth”. If the latter is the price of being effective, I will take it.

A government built on the idea that “if other people hate what we are doing then we must be doing it right” turns Canada into the US. No thank you.

If improving the climate is the goal, that should be what we measure. Strength of opposition represents at best an unavoidable side-effect and at worst failure to focus action on the actual goal.