Politics Insider for April 26: Manitoba will see Ottawa in court, holding Trans Mountain hostage, and a PBO gift for Trudeau
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Ratcheting up the pressure on Ottawa, Manitoba joined Saskatchewan and Ontario in filing its own court challenge against the federal climate plan. Its case will be slightly different because Manitoba originally proposed a flat carbon tax of $25, with no future increases, which was rejected by Ottawa. The province’s lawyers are going to argue the Trudeau government had no right to rebuff its original carbon levy since it might have been equally effective.
Networking: Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer and other top party officials huddled with seniors executives from the oil patch earlier this month to draft a plan of attack to defeat Trudeau in the next election: Talk about carbon hypocrisy: Andrew MacDougall has some advice for Trudeau as he battles to protect his climate plan—lead by example:
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