More smear from Scheer but seriously that has always been their tactic because they have no platform on which to build the country

Liberals say Andrew Scheer is ‘misleading and dishonest’ in his attack on clean fuel standards

OTTAWA—Liberal MPs are accusing Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer of misleading the public by labelling the government’s long-anticipated clean fuel standards a “secret tax.”

The Conservative leader wrote an open letter to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Monday, urging him to abandon the proposed rules that are expected to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by mandating that fuels get cleaner each year after the standards are imposed in 2022.

Scheer called this proposal a “secret fuel tax” that will increase the cost of gas, even though the plan was announced in 2016 and has gone through public consultations for more than two years.

At a press conference Tuesday, Liberal MPs Sean Fraser (Central Nova) and Mona Fortier (Ottawa—Vanier) accused Scheer and the Conservatives of blindly opposing Liberal policies to fight climate change even before they’re decided upon. Fraser said it is too early to say how much the proposed fuel standards will increase the price of gas because the proposed rules won’t be finalized until 2021.

“The fight over the clean fuel standard and the misleading rhetoric around the label as a tax is just one example of Andrew Scheer finding a climate policy we’re advancing and deciding he’s opposed to it seemingly before the details are fully released, or before he understands it,” said Fraser, who is the parliamentary secretary to the environment minister.

“The clean fuel standard is very clearly an example of a regulation, not taxation. To describe it otherwise is frankly misleading and dishonest.”

Link https://www.thestar.com/politics/federal/2019/07/09/liberals-say-andrew-scheer-is-misleading-and-dishonest-in-his-attack-on-clean-fuel-standards.html?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=SocialMedia&utm_campaign&utm_campaign_id&utm_content&source=the+toronto+star&fbclid=IwAR05HR-uaunAlldw1nnMsgQPl21jqLWMyo1cB31E7Rr6VVXh1r5zubk1F9M