🇨🇦 Ottawa suddenly discovers federalism when convenient

Environment Minister Dabrusin now claims the feds deliberately didn't impose the carbon tax backstop on Alberta as a gesture of co-operation. How noble. This is the same government that spent years ramming the carbon tax down provincial throats, threatening constitutional warfare, and accusing dissenters of climate denial. Now facing electoral annihilation and watching Poilievre's poll numbers, suddenly they're champions of provincial flexibility.

The carbon tax architect Trudeau invoked federal override powers repeatedly when provinces resisted. Now his successor's cabinet pretends they were always open to dialogue. This isn't federalism — it's damage control dressed up as statesmanship. They didn't respect Alberta's autonomy out of principle, they blinked because the political cost became unbearable. Pure cynicism repackaged as virtue.

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