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Lostin all of the shouting over the Liberal carbon tax is a simple fact: the tax — even when fully implemented — does not get Canada to its emissions targets (i.e. Stephen Harper’s targets) under the Paris Accord.

Perhapsthat’s why Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Environment Minister Catherine McKenna prefer instead to tuck their tax into the broader toolbox of climate action.

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Evenif, however, the Liberal government’sentire pan-Canadian Framework on Clean Growth and Climate Change — all 78 pages of it — was put in place, it still wouldn’t get Canada to where the planet needs it to be on climate change. Not even close.

Thesearen’t, by the way, arguments against doing what the Liberals are proposing; merely an argument that it’s not enough, according to the Liberals’ own rhetoric.

Evenif the world somehow pulled a boatload of climate magic out of its backside and hit the Paris target of 1.5 C warming, it’s not clear it would stop the world from suffering some of the more serious side effects of climate change.