Still losing the war on climate change all these years later

The likelihood of the carbon tax becoming a game-changing problem for the government was advanced by the prime minister’s failure to effectively explain to Canadians how it works.

The price on carbon has emerged as a major symbolic liability for Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and the federal Liberals, writes Les Whittington.The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY LES WHITTINGTON

November 15, 2023

OTTAWA—Back during the 2008 election campaign, reporters covering Stéphane Dion, the Liberals’ accidental leader at the time, spent many a dreary hour listening to him trying to explain his proposed “Green Shift” to voters.

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