Western Canada newsletter: Has the carbon tax become a quick and easy shorthand for campaigns? GlobeBC
Last weekend, voters in Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Ontario and New Brunswickfrom Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer reminding them they had one last chance to fill up their gas tanks before the cost of gas increased in their provinces.
But Mr. Scheer has been using the imposition of the tax against the wishes of those provinces as part of his appeal to voters opposed to the Liberals’ efforts to find a balance between its environmental commitments and the party’s so-far failed attempts to build pipeline capacity. Mr. Kenney has long declared that if he is elected premier in Alberta’s April 16 election, a UCP government would kill the version of the tax introduced by Rachel Notley’s NDP. As Calgary-based environment reporter Jeff Lewis reports, Mr. Kenney sees a winning strategy in eliminating the tax asMr. Kenney would roll back other climate regulations, such as doing away with a cap on emissions of greenhouse gasses from the oil sands.
A win for Mr. Kenney later this month would surely be a harbinger for the federal election battle between Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s Liberals and Mr. Scheer’s Conservatives.Mr. Kenney’s campaign platform and the debut of the tax in those holdout provinces comes with ironic timing:shows that Canada is warming at twice the rate of the rest of the world, with parts of Canada’s north warming even faster.
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