Good riddance

Canadians who care about our resource wealth and future prosperity should celebrate Steven Guilbeault's imminent departure from the governing caucus and keep him as far as possible from the levers of power.

Guilbeault comes from the recesses of the extreme environmentalist movement. Who can forget him years ago, arrested after scaling the CN Tower as a young Greenpeace protester?

Officials should never have given him the environment portfolio, and he probably should never have sat in Cabinet. He personified climate‑driven extremism in the Trudeau government, pushed for stricter mandates on the energy sector, and imposed unreasonable electricity standards nationwide.