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“The suggestion in any way, shape or form that Australia — accounting for 1.3 per cent of the world’s emissions — are impacting directly on specific fire events, whether it is here or anywhere else in the world, that doesn’t bear up to credible scientific evidence,” he said in an Australian Broadcasting Corp. radio interview.

His assertion that Australia is “doing our bit as part of the response to climate change” but not at the expense of “reckless” cuts to jobs in fossil fuel industries comes fairly close to the mantra that’s been on Moe’s lips.

Seeming to mimic Morrison, Moe tweets that Saskatchewan’s emissions only amount to one-tenth of Canada’s GHG output, which in turn constitutes just 1.6 per cent of global emissions.

However, that places our country among the top 10 global contributors of greenhouse gases. Also left unsaid is that Saskatchewan residents make up three per cent of Canada’s population, yet our province’s emissions place it among the worst per capita polluters in the world.

Morrison is paying a political price for his approach now, as Australians point the finger at his policies for exacerbating the bushfires that have killed two dozen people and hundreds of millions of animals from kangaroos to koalas, consumed 18 million acres of land and enveloped communities in thick smoke that’s now spreading as far as South America.

What coal is to Australia as an export, so is oil and gas to Saskatchewan. Moe, whose Saskatchewan Party is supported heavily by energy companies under the province’s laughably lax laws on political donations, describes oil as a sustainable and innovative industry that’s economically and environmentally viable for the long term. Much of the world has concluded otherwise.