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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, pictured, won't be retreating from the climate-change framework he negotiated with provinces in the early days of taking office, writes columnist Chantal Hébert. Opposition Leader Andrew Scheer, also pictured, has seized on the carbon-tax plan as an opportunity to cut into Trudeau's base. The Hill Times photographs by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY CHANTAL HÉBERT

October 29, 2018

Is a carbon tax a hill Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is willing to die on? That question had been in the back of many political minds since Ontario—under its new PC government—bailed out of the federal climate change framework last spring.

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