OK. I've tried to digest the new CPC climate plan, and offer some thoughts in this thread. conservative.ca/conservative-l… High level: The plan is short on details, but the commitments overall are *much* stronger than the prior version of the CPC plan. This is a plan that treats climate change as a "real" problem and proposes some real solutions.

Got my first look at the Conservative climate plan. It’s great to see more engagement on climate change, but the main element is lowering and weakening the consumer carbon tax that is currently implemented. Both of these changes will result in an increase in greenhouse gas. First, the carbon tax will be lowered from the currently forecast $170/t in 2030 to $50/t in 2030. This dramatically scales back the ambition of carbon pricing policy.

Finally had a chance to read the Conservative “Real Plan” for climate change, which has been a long time in coming. It was substantially weaker than I expected, and much closer to Doug Ford’s Ontario “plan” than anything else. The main planks:
1. Scrap the carbon tax.
2. Keep the carbon price on large emitters. But direct any revenues emitters pay towards development of emission reducing technologies.
3. Leverage private sector funds to develop technologies.
4. Tax credits for home retrofits.

Headlines today that claim the scope of the carbon tax will be reduced are very misleading. The (proposed) carbon tax remains intact. Ottawa has announced that it will increase output subsidies to some sectors.
theglobeandmail.com/business/indus…
bnnbloomberg.ca/ottawa-to-scal… The policy was always intended to be a two-part policy: (1)charge emitters for carbon emissions;(2)provide subsidies to some sectors to promote competitiveness. The idea is to penalize carbon emissions without affecting competitiveness. Today, change to 2 was announced, not to 1