“We’re being asked to agree to a carbon tax that the federal government admits will cascade through the system for Canadians, and we’re being asked to do it without a full assessment,” he said in Ottawa.Īnd he made common cause with B.C.’s Clark, saying the federal plan would result in a competitive “imbalance” given the number of emitters in central Canada, where cap-and-trade will mitigate emissions, resulting in a lower carbon price than in western Canada. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. The Saskatchewan premier is dead set against a federally imposed tax on carbon dioxide emissions, saying Ottawa has failed to provide an economic analysis of the biggest tax change in a generation. Wall flatly asserted he won’t sign any agreement that includes the Liberal carbon pricing plan.

“We’re always stronger when we’re working together,” he said.īut the promised show of pan-Canadian unity on climate policy was showing strains as the meeting began. Vice-President Joe Biden.īiden, just weeks away from the end of the Obama administration and the ascendency of Donald Trump’s Republicans, gave a rallying speech of sorts before departing the meeting. “We should not waver,” Trudeau said to open the meeting, where he was flanked by U.S. Trudeau assembled the provincial and territorial premiers in the capital Friday where the Liberal government hopes to finalize its crowning achievement for its first year in office - a federal-provincial policy road map to meeting Canada’s international climate commitments.

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