EXPLAINING STRATEGY TO ERIN O'TOOLE

     Rex Murphy: So why does the leadership of the Conservative Party of Canada hold its great convention and put a “faith-test” on climate change at its heart? Why did O’Toole drag out the ugly slander of “denier” for those who contest its supremacy over all other issues, its many dubious methodologies, questionable modelling and failed predictions? (Just because “denier” has become press-shorthand doesn’t cleanse it of its spiteful meanness and vicious attempt to associate asking questions about global warming with Holocaust denial.)
   Where was the speech ripping U.S. President Joe Biden for his fiat on Keystone XL? Where was the call for an east-west pipeline? Where was the volcanic anger over Alberta’s resources being land-locked, the various jihads against any pipelines, anywhere?
   There was so much wrong with the Conservative resolution on climate change, which was ultimately voted down by the members. Did it not enter the heads of those who advise the Conservative leader that the Liberal party of Justin Trudeau, Catherine McKenna and their one-time climate-warrior mentor, Gerald Butts, cannot be politically outbid on global warming? Did they not think that instead of lining up with the Liberals on this crusade of folly, the Conservatives should be challenging their opponents’ fanatical willingness to subordinate the Canadian economy to their obsession on the subject?