A look ahead at the week in federal politics.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau makes an announcement that the government will double the carbon price rebate for rural Canadians beginning next April during a news conference in Ottawa on Thursday Oct. 26, 2023. Trudeau also says there will be a temporary, three-year pause to carbon pricing measures that are applied to deliveries of heating oil, beginning in two weeks.
It also prompted the premiers of Saskatchewan and Alberta demand that the exemption be broadened to include natural gas, “as the majority of people in their provinces use it to heat their homes,” Canadian Pressthat it “sends the signal to emitters — and investors — that policy can be weakened in the future, diluting the carbon price’s effectiveness in driving the long-term, low-carbon investments required to reduce emissions.
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