this is confirmed, though: the progressive conservatives are running against a carbon tax that the provincial government has already ruled out.

they're running against a complete strawman.

these are the facts here.

1) trudeau has put down an ultimatum to pick between a carbon tax and a cap and trade.
2) ontario (current premier: kathleen wynne) has chosen cap and trade.

that is, ontario has ruled out a carbon tax.

3) patrick brown, previous conservative opposition leader, put together a platform that proposed replacing the cap and trade with the carbon tax. this would be really complicated, as the cap and trade system is actually international (and includes california). but he had reasons to do it.
4) it should not be surprising that conservative voters in ontario don't like the idea of a carbon tax.
5) patrick brown resigns amidst questionable allegations of "sexual misconduct" involving potentially underage girls.
6) all of the conservative leadership contenders decide they're running against kathleen wynne's proposal to bring in a carbon tax.

this is not a joke. they're really doing this.

and the post claims the debate showed they weren't ignoramuses...

i don't know how many ontarians....how do i put this? how many of them can read a book? but, it's too late to backtrack, now.

in addition to the anti-queer dog whistling, is this going to be the election about the imaginary carbon tax?

somebody find me a wall to start banging my head on.

jagmeet singh must cut his beard.