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“They took all the trees / And put them in a tree museum / Then they charged the people / A dollar and a half just to see ’em”

So wrote Joni Mitchell in 1970. She, of course, meant this as irony – a slap-down to the “chop it – pave it – sell it” economy, as well as to the hyper-consumerist culture that emerges from (and supports) it.

Based on his government’s shiny new climate plan, it doesn’t seem like Justin Trudeau gets irony.

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