Drumroll everyone, Poilievre has finally released his climate change plan!!!!! As embarrassing and disqualifying as it has been to not have one this past year, we finally get to evaluate it on its merits. Here's the "plan".
Yikes. So after ripping up the carbon tax and the clean fuel standards he is apparently going to put absolutely no price on carbon in any form. This is enough to not it isn't a serious plan immediately, but what IS he going to do? Well, he makes a nice rhetorical shift to supporting clean energies starting with tidal (and seemingly forgetting about wind and solar entirely). But notice that unlike say Ontario and its feed-in-tarrif system or Biden's many direct investments, this isn't Poilievre suggesting he is going to spend a dime supporting any one of these technologies. Instead, his only suggestion is to gut environmental protections at can sometimes slow down the process.
For instance, with tidal, I presume he can only be talking about the Bay of Fundy projects, which he describes as "Trudeau is killing it", but the challenges in these projects are all about generating tidal power without ravaging the fish ecosystem, and the government is supportive of the projects while wanting to make sure they are sufficiently tested to be protecting the fish. Some recent details here:
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-...ower-1.6848970.
Regardless, the idea that we can make any progress on climate change by just having less environmental regulations on a few fringe projects is utter fantasy.