Upcoming carbon price increase to ‘pose some of the greatest challenges to the Trudeau government yet,’ argues Angus Reid’s Kurl

Innovative Research Group’s Greg Lyle, meanwhile, sees the annual increases that come with the federal carbon price policy as more of a ‘growing pressure’ for the feds than an ‘immediate crisis.’

Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault, pictured Nov. 3, 2020, on the Hill. 'If there’s ever a time where Minister Guilbeault is prepared to communicate with Canadians on an issue that he knows well, this is it,' says Summa Strategies' Elliot Hughes. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

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BY LAURA RYCKEWAERT

January 24, 2022

The federal carbon price is rising for a third time this April, reaching $50 per tonne of greenhouse gas emissions, but amid high inflation and affordability anxiety one pollster suggests it may prove a challenge, and a test, for the Trudeau government to sell to Canadians. “The timing and amount...

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