Climate clarity needed: don’t pile up programs, focus on transformations

Scrapping the carbon tax would be a tragedy, but it would be a bigger one to add a new program without critically assessing the whole climate action plan.

Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre, left, and Liberal leadership candidates Chrystia Freeland, and Mark Carney. The next leader of the Canadian government should focus on simple—but transformative—policies, writes Pierre-Olivier Pineau.The Hill Times photographs by Sam Garcia and Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY PIERRE-OLIVIER PINEAU

February 26, 2025

Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre has already succeeded in axing the tax. While nobody knows what the next Canadian government will do to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, the federal “fuel charge”—the official name of the carbon tax—will disappear. Both leading ca...

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