It was billed as the "climate change election" and the voters soundly rejected the idea of paying more money to government to support meaningless virtue signalling by the political leaders.
This is the same phenomenon we see everywhere, from the protests in France to the progressives in Washington state voting last November against a carbon tax. And, of course, we saw the decimation of the Wynne Liberals in last year's Ontario election.
There's an important lesson here for Democrats in the U.S. and for the Trudeau Liberals about ordinary voters saying 'no' to the elites' agenda.
Did you forget that the Liberals had the Carbon Tax on their Election platform and have implemented it. The right wingers would have slammed them for a broken promise if they did nothing about it. They implemented it in a prudent manner to all the Provinces that either did not have an existing legislation, or repealed one that was in place. What the right wingers try not to mention is that there was a tax credit given to all the taxpayers in advance to offset it. The Baby Scheer Government promised to repeal it, and to replace it with another piece of legislation. Can any of the right wingers elaborate what exactly is he just promising and promising as that is all he does all the time. But do you think in the end we taxpayers will not end up paying for his mythical piece of legislation??
Remember that the present Australian Government are still determined to meet the existing Carbon Emission targets that they set!!