Alberta Premier Danielle Smith responds to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's comments on her changing stance on carbon rebates, stating that the increasing cost of the federal levy makes it unjustifiable.
Alberta Premier Danielle Smith says although she once spoke positively of carbon rebates , the rising cost of the federal levy means Prime Minister Justin Trudeau can no longer justify it.Prime Minister Justin Trudeau meets with Alberta Premier Danielle Smith in Calgary on March 13, 2024. Alberta Premier Danielle Smith says although she once spoke positively of carbon rebates , the rising cost of the federal levy means Prime Minister Justin Trudeau can no longer justify it.
"He's continued to pile on additional costs over the last few years, which has completely changed the calculus." "He throws his argument out the window," said Smith, adding that when she made her previous comments, she was comparing Trudeau's plan to that of the Alberta NDP, which had only rebated a portion of revenues to low-to-middle income earners when it was in government.Soon after former UCP premier Jason Kenney killed the NDP's consumer carbon pricing program in 2019, the province was forced to accept Ottawa's levy.
Later Friday, Trudeau told a business audience in Calgary that there are always going to be areas in which he and Smith disagree — "sometimes spectacularly.""No matter what the premier says, no matter how much she is poking at me, I'm not walking away from Alberta."
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