Wed Aug 23, 2023 – 4:01 pm EDT
(LifeSiteNews) — The former Liberal environment minister has claimed that Canadians who oppose the Trudeau government’s carbon tax are, in effect, “arsonists.”
On August 19, former Liberal Environment Minister Catherine McKenna condemned Conservatives as “arsonists” responsible for forest fires for their opposition to the carbon tax imposed on the use of natural resources by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government.
“Conservative politicians want to fight about a price on carbon pollution?” McKenna posted on X, formerly known as Twitter. “You want to make it free to pollute while Canadians pay with their lives threatened, homes destroyed and their communities obliterated? So what are you going to do? You are the arsonists.”
Conservative politicians want to fight about a price on carbon pollution? You want to make it free to pollute while Canadians pay with their lives threatened, homes destroyed and their communities obliterated? So what are you going to do? You are the arsonists.
— Catherine McKenna (@cathmckenna) August 20, 2023
Notably, McKenna restricted comments on her post to those she mentioned or follows, meaning most Canadians could not reply to her inflammatory statement.
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