Anyone who believes you can’t suck and blow at the same time has never met the Ontario Liberals when they’re explaining their plan to — insert laughter here — “fight” global warming.

Because of Premier Kathleen Wynne, Ontarians are now paying almost $2 billion more a year, ostensibly to fight climate change, through her cap-and-trade carbon pricing scheme.

And yet, also thanks to Wynne, we’re about to become part owners of a giant U.S. electricity plant in Montana that consumes one rail car of coal every five minutes, with all the greenhouse gas and pollution problems that entails.

That’s a circle the Liberals can’t square, and a level of hypocrisy they can’t answer with political spin no matter how hard they try.

With much boasting Wynne — personally praised by global warming guru Al Gore, no less — passed a law in 2015, following the closure of Ontario’s last coal-fired electricity plant in 2014, banning the use of coal to produce electricity in Ontario.

But it gets worse.

In 2005, Wynne’s predecessor, Dalton McGuinty — who publicly endorsed by global warming saint David Suzuki in the 2011 provincial election — launched a campaign against U.S. cross-border coal emissions, arguing they were causing up to 90% of Ontario’s air problems.

But that was then, this is now.

Now the Wynne government, the largest single shareholder in Hydro One — holding more than 40% of the provincial utility after selling the rest of it to the private sector because it’s broke — is behind Ontario’s re-entry into the coal business.

This through Hydro One’s $6.7-billion purchase of U.S. energy company Avista, to be finalized next year, which has a part ownership in the giant Colstrip coal-fired electricity plant in Montana.

Colstrip was the 15th largest industrial greenhouse gas emitter in the U.S. in 2012, according to the Environmental Protection Agency.

It spewed out 13.5 megatonnes of greenhouse gas emissions annually. That’s 45% of the 30 megatonnes annually that all of Ontario’s coal-fired power plants emitted at their peak.

Wynne’s defence of this, that she hopes Ontario’s “clean energy” philosophy can be exported to the U.S. through Hydro One, ignores the fact that the Liberals are back in the coal business they spent 14 years attacking in Ontario.

Hydro One’s spin, that Avista owns only 15% of the Colstrip power plant and gets only 9% of its electricity from coal is an excuse, not a defence, given that the Liberals started campaigning in the U.S. against using coal-fired electricity more than a decade ago.

What this illustrates is that the Liberals are not only hypocrites on climate change — using it to orchestrate a massive cash grab on the public, through cap and trade — but also incompetents.

Incompetent because they wasted billions upon billions of our dollars on wind and solar power they didn’t need to replace coal-fired electricity, which they actually replaced with nuclear power and natural gas.

That is, until they took us back into the coal business.