Newfoundland residents frustrated with carbon tax, have mixed reviews of their Liberal MPs, including Seamus O’Regan

‘I think it will still take more time for all those Liberal MPs to go back into their constituency and make the case to people in those ridings that they had sway,’ said David Coletto of Abacus Data.

Canada’s federal Labour Minister and Liberal MP Seamus O'Regan is one of the more high-profile members of his party in Atlantic Canada. If he were to lose his riding in the next federal election, 'it probably means [the Liberals] lose every seat in Newfoundland and Labrador,' said pollster David Coletto.The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

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BY IAN CAMPBELL

November 8, 2023

ST. JOHN’S, N.L.—Voters on Newfoundland’s Avalon Peninsula have few kind words about the controversial federal carbon tax, but the views they hold on their Liberal MPs who are part of the government that has implemented the policy are—in some cases—more nuanced.

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