Trudeau needs to show he’s serious about working collaboratively with our provincial, territorial partners on climate change

The Liberal government’s imposition of a carbon tax on every province which refuses to do so itself flies in the face of Justin Trudeau’s stated commitment to ushering in a new era of federal-provincial/territorial relations.
Yet Environment Minister Catherine McKenna continues to assert that the only tool which is compulsory is the carbon tax. Why single out the carbon tax? Is this a triumph of ideology over common sense?
The Liberal government’s imposition of a carbon tax on every province which refuses to do so itself flies in the face of Justin Trudeau’s stated commitment to ushering in a new era of federal-provincial/territorial relations. Like so many of the prime minister’s other broken promises, this one...

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