Manning has argued tirelessly with Reform’s spiritual heirs that simple, revenue-neutral carbon pricing is the most conservative approach available to fighting emissions
OTTAWA — In his post-politics career, Preston Manning has always cut a unique figure within the Canadian conservative movement: He was born into the Western populist tradition, and helped guide that wing of the movement to primacy in a united federal party that governed for a decade; but in more recent years he has been seen very much as an establishment figure. Probably no issue has highlighted the disconnect more than carbon pricing.
None of this was for lack of effort by Manning, who has argued tirelessly that simple, revenue-neutral carbon pricing is the most conservative approach available to fighting emissions. On the evidence, there has been zero uptake.
Fewer conservatives would balk at market-oriented solutions to air or water pollution, or to municipal waste management, he argues. But because carbon taxation arrived on the scene as a solution to what many conservatives don’t — or didn’t — see as a problem, he thinks it developed a bad reputation.
“ is probably the worst of all possible reactions because it fuels the very thing it professes to abhor. What is really required of the establishment if populism is to be prevented from going rogue, is a sincere and concentrated effort to understand and address its root concerns and causes.”
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