OTTAWA — Although Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre never got the “carbon tax election” he wanted, he is nevertheless sticking to that well-trodden ground by branding another Liberal environmental policy with the same label.

His announcement in Charlottetown on Wednesday, that Canadians should view a set of regulations applied to fossil-fuel suppliers as “the carbon tax 2.0,” illustrates two central questions the Conservative leader faces.

How much can he stick to the hits versus playing a new tune?

And, more importantly to Poilievre’s political fortunes: Can the Conservative leader prove he is back in the saddle against the new sheriff in town — or is he a one-trick pony?

Poilievre recently took the first step in his new political journey by winning a byelection in rural Alberta

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