If Ford’s strapped for cash, he might keep carbon tax, say NDP, Liberal strategists

Court challenges and right-wing provincial governments put incoming Ontario premier in good company if he insists on ducking the federal plan.

Ontario Progressive Conservative leader and incoming premier Doug Ford says he will oppose the carbon pricing regime the Trudeau government is in the process of implementing.The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

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BY EMILY HAWS

June 13, 2018

Ontario Progressive Conservative leader Doug Ford’s majority win last week could spell trouble for Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s carbon pricing regime, but some political strategists say Mr. Ford might be resigned to live with some form of carbon pricing once he...

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