Liberals are in panicking as they are sliding in the polls and he only paused heating oil for Atlantic Canada in order to buy their votes for the next election. There is no question the Liberals would add it back if they were elected again. I hope the Atlantic provinces don't fall for it, but I don't think there is any trust there so there is nothing they can do to bring the trust back.
Wizard of Oz is about the political climate in the 1880s around money where there was competition to the gold standard with people advocating for a bimetalic standard with silver. The yellow brick road represents the gold standard, while Dorothy's slippers were silver in the book (adapted to ruby for the movie).
The scarecrow represented the farmers, tin man the industry in need of oil, the cowardly lion was William Jennings Bryan, who was a pro-silver advocate.
I have a bunch of junk silver too for that purpose. When I was transporting it on a plane upon a move back home, the TSA agent was wondering what I was doing with a bunch of old dimes and quarters and I said "you guys used to have real money".
It's real: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1zraPn29dU