Liberal MPs are feeling the heat in B.C. The party cancelled a fundraiser planned for last night, rather than face a raucous climate protest in Victoria.
As wildfire smoke chokes major cities and homes burn down this summer, people are angry that Mark Carney’s government keeps pouring public money into oil and gas expansion.
And Canadians are rightly suspicious that the globetrotting banker’s handouts to Wall Street billionaires and weapons dealers will only make our lives more unaffordable.
Carney’s approval rating has dropped nine points from its peak in February, and the Liberal party’s lead over the Conservatives has narrowed, according to the latest Angus Reid poll.
Where are those voters going? Largely to the NDP. Angus Reid’s analysis shows climate change has flared up again as a top-five issue – and it’s driving votes away from the Liberals.
This might come as a surprise to politicians, who spent the last year convincing themselves that constituents no longer care whether the earth remains habitable for their grandkids.
Carney’s abandonment of climate action might be easier to swallow, if the projects he were subsidizing delivered lasting wealth to the people who elected him.
But the irony is that LNG export terminals and AI data centres only make our bills higher, as they drive up prices for fossil gas, and consume gigawatts of electricity that we pay for.
Meanwhile, the profits go to people like Steve Schwarzman, CEO of Blackstone and longtime advisor to Donald Trump. Or the Saudi royal family, who now own a stake in LNG Canada.
The pyrocumulonimbus clouds are gathering for the Liberals, as Canadians start to question whether Carney is really working for them – or his friends in the global financial elite.
