A year ago, Liberals accused critics of their green policies of wanting the planet to burn

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Another Justin Trudeau-era policy, the EV mandate, has been scrapped. That’s great news for consumers, because ultimately the market should decide the vehicles we buy, not Ottawa claiming some moral high ground. But while this is obviously a good move, let us not forget what came to those who opposed these Trudeau-era climate measures over the last decade.

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For the better part of nine years we were told that the consumer carbon tax was not just good policy, but a moral imperative. To question a policy like the emissions cap at the time was questioning climate science itself. We were told that the electric vehicle mandate was civilization’s last hope. Anyone who dared to suggest that these policies were economically ruinous  weren’t just wrong. They were immoral, and wanted the world to burn.

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