Andrew Scheer bristles when likened to Premier Doug Ford, yet continues to encourage these comparisons by adopting many Ford policies and campaign choices. Scheer’s latest stunt — withholding a costed platform as long as possible — imitates Ford’s election campaign.

Conservatives have promised us a fully costed platform, but only after the leaders’ debates are over. That’s a naked ploy to avoid other leaders’ challenges to the affordability and feasibility of his promises. Is Scheer afraid he can’t defend his pledges to us from scrutiny?

When his costed platform is finally revealed, I’ll be watching to see how it deals with his much-touted “energy corridor.” A University of Calgary study estimates it will take half a century to build at an eye-popping cost of $100 billion.

If Earth remains habitable at that point — and it won’t, if we haven’t largely transitioned off fossil fuels — we’ll have paid a king’s ransom to transport an obsolete product.

Penny Gill, Dundas

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