Pierre Poilievre’s “Full Plan for a Full Tank” is the kind of slogan you come up with when your entire platform fits on a bumper sticker. Scrap the carbon tax. Kill the Clean Fuel Standard. Axe the GST on fuel. Hand the fossil fuel industry everything it wants and call it populism because truckers pay for diesel. His motion got voted down in October. He repackaged the same demands as budget conditions in November. Carney’s government said no twice.
Poilievre’s response was to reject the entire budget, one that actually invests in Canadian economic sovereignty, in favor of cheaper gas. That’s the whole vision. Cheaper gas today, nothing tomorrow. The Liberals out-fundraised the Conservatives by nearly a million dollars last quarter, which tells you plenty about who’s actually building something. Poilievre called Carney’s Liberals “counterfeit Conservatives,” which might be the most accidentally honest thing he’s ever said. He’s not worried Carney is too liberal. He’s worried Carney is better at his job.