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When Ontario Premier Doug Ford blew up any thoughts of his province joining in on the Trudeau Liberals’ carbon-tax cash grab, Environment Minister Catherine McKenna all but blew a gasket.

How dare Ford not want to save the world? she undoubtedly thought, as if the newly-elected premier of Canada’s most-populated province was dumping a billion tonnes of plastic straws into the ocean rather than seeing the carbon tax for what it is — which is a solve-nothing picking of Ontarians’ collective pocket.

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A new poll by Angus Reid has McKenna’s quest for environmental vainglory failing to attract the kind of backing the government will need if it plans to achieve victory in the 2019 federal election while peddling a forced carbon tax, no matter how progressive and feel-good it might be to a prime minister who loves to strut his enviro-friendly bona fides.

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Again, this is not his fault. Justin Trudeau’s good friend and principal secretary, Gerald Butts, is a Class-A tree hugger, having spent a recent four years a president and CEO of the World Wildlife Fund Canada, a global environmental agency so far to the left no middle ground exists.