The prime minister is winning the carbon pricing fight, he shouldn’t back down now

Canadians voted for climate action in the last election. The prime minister needs to continue to vigorously defend the policy he ran on and won.

Regardless of the political math, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, pictured Nov. 20, 2019, may feel that he needs to allow weaker systems in all three provinces, in the interest of federal-provincial harmony. But for the country, that will mean less effective climate policies, higher carbon emissions, and provincial unfairness. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY DALE MARSHALL

December 9, 2019

Over the coming weeks, the federal government will have to make big decisions that will determine just how effective Canada’s carbon price will be at reducing emissions. Alberta, Ontario, and New Brunswick have all proposed weaker carbon pricing systems for their industrial emitters and are now as...

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