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She’s right.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Environment Minister Catherine McKenna are misleading Canadians when they claim Trudeau’s national carbon price/tax and his other schemes have us on track to meet the commitments Trudeau made to reduce our emissions under the United Nations’ Paris climate accord he signed in 2015.

Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer misled Canadians when he said he could meet Canada’s Paris targets without a carbon tax.

Recently, he’s dropped this commitment, which is at least more honest than what the Liberals are claiming.

But until Scheer releases his plan, we don’t know how far he’s willing to go in telling the truth.

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May, on the other hand, is clear and consistent in what she says.

She considers man-made climate change to be an imminent, existential threat to humanity and therefore the most important issue in this year’s election, or any election.

May is clear that, given that belief, she is committed to decarbonizing Canadian industry as rapidly as possible and transitioning to a clean energy economy, while keeping most of our reserves of oil, natural gas and coal in the ground.

While she would increase Canada’s capacity to refine its own oil, May opposes using pipelines to get it from Alberta’s oilsands to tidewater, and using oil tankers to deliver it to global markets.

Rail, she says, must be made safer to transport oil and gas.

Unique among the mainstream party leaders, May says, honestly, that meeting Canada’s current emission reduction targets — much less the steeper ones advocated by the Greens — would require significant sacrifices from Canadians.