Atlantic premiers again assail federal carbon tax at Halifax meeting

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Murphy's Logic and reflections on 45+ years of broadcasting | SaltWireSeveral premiers maligned the federal carbon tax as ineffective and unfair at a two-day Canadian premiers meeting in Halifax.

“If you are in a jurisdiction such as ours and you talk about the impact of the carbon tax, quickly it’s thrown back at you that you are some kind of climate change denier, a knuckle-dragging Neanderthal-type personality that I would say Prince Edward Islanders are not.”“We live it every day and our position has been since we became the government in 2019 that rather than fight over these things, why can’t we work on the shared goals together to reduce our carbon footprint and help Islanders, ..

“We have a program that’s kind of made in Canada that actually sticks to just Canada and we are not recognizing the opportunity for Canada to be a major player to reduce emissions around the world with energy sources that are available here. Eby displayed his enthusiasm for the federal government’s heat pump initiatives in Atlantic Canada by unfurling a T-shirt that read I Love Heat Pumps.

“In our province, they don’t work particularly well, not below minus-25 ," Smith said."You can’t get insurance without having a backup to your heat pump and so it’s not really a credible option in our province.”

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