{"id":25616,"date":"2024-02-22T00:28:38","date_gmt":"2024-02-22T00:28:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/?p=25616"},"modified":"2024-02-22T00:35:33","modified_gmt":"2024-02-22T00:35:33","slug":"outlier-liar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/?p=25616","title":{"rendered":"outlier&#8230;liar&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"563\" src=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/axe-the-Tax.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-25630\" style=\"width:1000px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/axe-the-Tax.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/axe-the-Tax-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/axe-the-Tax-768x432.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em><strong>Pierre Poilievre doth pumpest up his chest<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>ipolitics Published&nbsp;Feb 21, 2024 at 1:20pm<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">click for article<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ipolitics.ca\/authors\/dXNlcjo3MzgxMA==\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ipolitics.ca\/authors\/dXNlcjo3MzgxMA==\">Davis Legree<\/a> https:\/\/www.ipolitics.ca\/news\/wilkinson-admonishes-poilievres-stance-on-climate-as-iea-turns-50 via @ipoliticsca<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>EXCERPTS edited from article<\/strong>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI think that [Poilievre] would struggle mightily because there would be nobody in the room that would agree with him,\u201d said Energy Minister Jonathan Wilkinson. \u201cThe current Conservative Party\u2019s climate plan is about letting it rip and letting the planet burn.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Energy and Natural Resources Minister Jonathan Wilkinson was in Paris last week to mark the 50th anniversary of the International Energy Agency (IEA)but he spent most of his time thinking about how Canada\u2019s presence would look different if Pierre Poilievre and the Conservatives were in charge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI reflected a lot during the meetings about what this would look like for Canada, if you had a government that was led by Mr. Poilievre,\u201d said Wilkinson. \u201cHe would be so far out of the mainstream of the conversations that it would be very challenging for Canada to be part of that conversation.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"621\" height=\"800\" src=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Court-Painter-Sleepy-PP.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-25631\" style=\"height:900px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Court-Painter-Sleepy-PP.jpg 621w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Court-Painter-Sleepy-PP-233x300.jpg 233w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em><strong>Court Painter with Portrait of PP as Outlier Liar<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">However, for Wilkinson, the evolution towards balancing the interrelated issues of energy and climate is a change yet to be embraced by the Conservative Party. Poilievre has&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/politics\/poilievre-climate-paris-emissions-1.7020379\">refused<\/a>&nbsp;to say how he plans to meet the agreement\u2019s targets, emphasizing his climate plan as \u201ctechnology, not taxes,\u201d referencing his well-established opposition to federal carbon pricing. &#8230;&#8221;Canada would end up with being an outlier in large measure because the current Conservative Party\u2019s climate plan is about letting it rip and letting the planet burn.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Court-Painter-Wilkinson.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-25637\" style=\"width:1000px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Court-Painter-Wilkinson.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Court-Painter-Wilkinson-300x205.jpg 300w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Court-Painter-Wilkinson-768x525.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em><strong>Court Painter with portrait of Fiery Laggard Energy Minister Jonathan Wilkinson.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\"><blockquote><p><em><strong>That being said, some environmentalists ripped Wilkinson and co. for continuing to fall short on climate change, emphasizing how Canada is actually lagging behind the IEA on embracing the clean energy transition.<\/strong><\/em><\/p><cite> <\/cite><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pierre Poilievre doth pumpest up his chest ipolitics Published&nbsp;Feb 21, 2024 at 1:20pm click for article Davis Legree https:\/\/www.ipolitics.ca\/news\/wilkinson-admonishes-poilievres-stance-on-climate-as-iea-turns-50 via @ipoliticsca EXCERPTS edited from article: \u201cI think that [Poilievre] would struggle mightily because there would be nobody in the room that would agree with him,\u201d said Energy Minister Jonathan Wilkinson. \u201cThe current Conservative Party\u2019s climate &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/?p=25616\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;outlier&#8230;liar&#8230;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-images","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25616","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25616"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25616\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25641,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25616\/revisions\/25641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}