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There will be no sex-ed policy resolutions at the convention either, Brown said in the interview.

The Liberals are more than eager to remind voters of Brown’s inconsistencies on social issues, accusing him last week of “double speak on abortion rights.” It was just the latest in a long string of attacks that paint him with an extreme right wing brush, while polls show half the province doesn’t know who he is — eight months before the provincial election.

I'm not going to say it's even up for consideration when I personally could not defend that or support it

The “shoe doesn’t fit,” Brown said.

“I was a backbench member of a broader team,” he said of his time in the Harper government. “Now that I’m the leader of the party I can much (more) clearly speak from my own heart…Rather than criticize the fact that opinions have evolved, we should celebrate it.”

Party members will vote online between Nov. 2 and 6 on 139 resolutions, with results announced at the Nov. 25 convention.

Carbon tax is another policy that will be off limits at the party policy convention.

Brown has already promised he would dismantle the current cap-and-trade program to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and instead implement a carbon tax that would be offset by other tax cuts — to the chagrin of some of the base.

They bristle at the notion with complaints both privately and publicly through blog posts and websites such as Axe the Carbon Tax. A former PC caucus member who was either expelled or resigned cited the carbon tax as a main reason for joining the fringe Trillium Party. But Brown brushes off any suggestion it’s a divisive issue.

“I think there’s a broader understanding in the party that I staked out some ground that we are going to take climate change seriously, that we are going to support carbon pricing as part of the national framework, that we have to do our part on the environment, but it should not be used as a revenue grab by government,” he said.