Where would you lead us, Andrew Scheer?

The federal Conservatives’ latest policy convention has left Andrew Scheer firmly in charge of the party.

The trouble is, despite that convention, no one really knows what the party stands for. Indeed, it’s far more obvious today what the Conservatives and their leader Scheer oppose rather than propose for the country.

And this gap in policy as well as credibility is only yawning wider with barely a year to go before the next national election.

Start with carbon taxes, the single issue over which the 2019 campaign will most likely be fought. Scheer and his party loathe them. They did before the weekend convention in Halifax.

And they exited the gathering as dead-set as ever against Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s plan to have every province and territory in the country impose some kind of price on carbon emissions.

Where they’ve left the country in the dark, however, is when it comes to what the Conservatives would do to fight climate change. Only the most strident climatechange deniers could love this do-nothing stand.

Not only does the lack of a climate change policy carry huge political risks in what could turn into a nationwide referendum on the environment, it is utterly irresponsible and arguably immoral after this catastrophic summer of global heat waves and wildfires has underlined the reality and risks of human-driven climate change more than ever.

The fate of the world hangs in balance. On this, there’s widespread scientific agreement. But the Conservatives seem happy to dump the problem in the laps of provincial governments to do with it whatever they please.

The federal government, in the Conservatives’ blurry vision for Canada, has no role to play. That’s not leadership. It’s the abdication of leadership — fiddling while the planet burns.

Now move on to the surge of migrants entering Canada without passing through official border crossings. The Conservatives’ criticism of how the Liberals are handling the situation will appeal to Canadians who have legitimate concerns about what’s happening, as well as to many others with unreasonable fears.

But the Conservatives’ call for a new border agreement with the United States to halt the influx is both overly simplistic and, given the rise of xenophobia in Donald Trump’s America, unrealistic in the extreme.

Of course, the Conservatives’ stand on migrants only leads to more awkward questions about all the hawkish language related to immigrants and refugees in Halifax over the weekend. At the very least, the party must quickly clarify its position on these issues.

And the questions in need of clarification continue to multiply. The fact that a motion that would have re-opened the abortion debate was only narrowly defeated indicates social conservatives are still a force to be reckoned with in this party. But how powerful?

On the positive side, the Conservatives publicly rallied around Scheer when Quebec MP Maxime Bernier — runner-up to Scheer in the last leadership race — blithely tossed a political grenade into the convention by announcing his resignation from the party, calling it “too intellectually and morally corrupt.”

But we’re left wondering how many Conservatives who remain in the fold share Bernier’s belief that there’s too much diversity in the country today.

Canadians want sane, compassionate and viable alternatives in the 2019 election provided by parties that can unite them, not divide them so they can be ruled.

We know Scheer is in the driver’s seat of his party. But who’s giving the directions? And just as important, who’s welcome to join the party to come along for the ride?