Commentary Try as I might, I just can’t find a single positive aspect of Erin O’Toole’s bizarre flip-flop in embracing a carbon tax policy after almost a year of vociferously opposing Canada’s current carbon tax. O’Toole had already been making his core supporters uncomfortable with his policy shifts to the left in recent months. In proposing a carbon tax, he has now infuriated his own base while feeding the fires of Western alienation. There is little indication that this move will gain him the Central-Canadian electoral support that he is clearly pursuing. The only people I can envision rejoicing over O’Toole’s climate change plan are the Trudeau Liberals as they prepare for an election. On June 18, 2020, Erin O’Toole signed a pledge with the Canadian Taxpayers Federation making it utterly clear that he would not support a carbon pricing scheme of any sort. There is little room for interpretation …