Trudeau’s ace in the hole on climate change

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau ceded ground this week on both sides of the climate debate and most remarkably, ceded ground to conservative opponents who are focused solely on killing a tax while offering nothing on the environment themselves, writes columnist Tim Harper.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's government has dropped the ball, politically, on the carbon tax, writes op-ed columnist Tim Harper. The Hill Times file photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY TIM HARPER

August 3, 2018

The federal Liberals may be taking a pragmatic approach to their carbon tax plan by softening the blow to heavy emitters. We are, after all, living beside a U.S. president who once believed global warming was a plot hatched by the...

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