Conservatives of different stripes are taking shots at Erin O’Toole for breaking his pledge to repeal the Trudeau carbon tax and instead introduce his own..“Things are ramping up at the Maverick Party,” said leader Jay Hill, in an interview with the Western Standard..“People are just fed up with the rank hypocrisy.”.“A tax is a tax is a tax. O’Toole tries to disguise it by calling it a ‘levy’ or a ‘carbon pricing mechanism’. It won’t fool anyone, especially Western Canadians.”.One Conservative MP that spoke to the Western Standard on condition of anonymity was floored by the flip-flop..“I found out about this on the CBC when I woke up this morning. This is madness. This is everything that we are against. How can I look my constituents in the face when we go to an election and tell them that we are any better?”.People’s Party of Canada leader Maxime Bernier also mocked O’Toole for lying about his plan to kill the carbon tax..“More programs, more tax complexity, more bureaucracy. That’s what @erinotoole is proposing with his new CARBON TAX,” Bernier tweeted..Independent MP Derek Sloan, who O’Toole kicked out of the Conservative party, had harsh word for his former boss..“Ever since @PeterMacKay accused @erinotoole during the leadership campaign of backing a carbon tax, O’Toole has sworn up and down it isn’t true. Today, he unveiled his climate plan, and it’s a carbon tax! “Liberal Lite” strikes again!” Sloan tweeted..The Western Standard has contacted Alberta Premier Jason Kenney’s office – who has been strongly critical of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s similar carbon tax – but so far there has been no response..Kenney backed O’Toole in the race to become the Conservative leader..More to come….Dave Naylor is the News Editor of the Western Standard.,dnaylor@westernstandardonline.com,.Twitter.com/nobby7694
