The right-wing roots of carbon pricing

Welcome to the world of "carbon fee and dividend," advocated by former secretaries of state George Schultz and James Baker, promoted by Green party politicians, and blessed by skeptical right-wing columnists as the optimal solution for our political and climatic environment.

To the frustration of Ford and federal Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer, right, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's Liberals have taken a page from the Tories’ playbook and are singing from the Republican songbook, writes Toronto Star op-ed columnist Martin Regg Cohn.

Opinion

BY Martin Regg Cohn

October 29, 2018

Today’s fight over carbon pricing isn’t the ideological battle of the century. That would be a historic misunderstanding of our future by politicians fighting the last war. Despite Pre...

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