Erin O’Toole Claims Only “some” Conservatives Dislike His Carbon Tax Plan

Since rolling out his environment plan, Conservative Party leader Erin O’Toole has been unsuccessfully gaslighting Canadian Conservatives that his proposed “carbon pricing-scheme” is not a tax.

This has undoubtedly been one of the biggest policy issues holding down support for the Conservative Party, even in the face of the gross incompetence of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, and that’s because on the carbon tax O’Toole has become no different than Trudeau. 

When asked about O’Toole’s Conservative base not liking his environment plan and calling out the “pricing scheme” as a tax, he said, “It does price carbon and I do get some questions about it and some people frustrated about that, but it shows my commitment.”

O’Toole then admitted that he was confronted by “a lot of pissed off farmers” about his plan in Saskatchewan, but “By the time I finished that conversation, they understood,” which is another way of saying that he lied to them. 

There are few Conservative supporters in Canada that actually like O’Toole’s carbon tax plan, and by claiming only “some” are opposed it shows either O’Toole is completely trapped in the Toronto echo-chamber, or he is just trying to make Conservatives who oppose his carbon tax plan feel like the minority and that their concerns don’t need to be taken seriously.

The fact is O’Toole is using the exact same lies that the Conservatives had roasted Trudeau and the Liberals for using when they introduced their carbon tax to claim that it is not a tax; the Liberals even today use phrases like “price on pollution” to avoid saying it is a tax.