Alberta UCP to vote on celebrating CO2, and not recognizing it as pollutant

From The National Observer:

A proposal to stop labelling carbon dioxide as a pollutant and instead celebrate it as a “foundational nutrient for all life on Earth” will be up for debate at the United Conservative Party’s annual general meeting in November.

I just, I don’t understand. Wasn’t Alberta on fire just a few months ago? Do they want more of that? This is just willful ignorance at this point and anyone who doesn’t understand the science of climate change should not be in any positions of power.