As former finance minister Chrystia Freeland prepares to launch a Liberal leadership bid, a source close to her says scrapping the controversial consumer carbon tax will be one of her policy planks.
Liberal MP Chrystia Freeland, former minister of finance and deputy prime minister, leaves after attending a meeting of the Liberal Caucus, in West Block on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, on Wednesday, Jan. 8, 2025. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Justin Tang
Sources say Freeland is set to announce her leadership run ahead of U.S. president-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration on Monday. Freeland also intends to announce dollar-for-dollar retaliatory tariffs to counter Trump’s threat of 25 per cent tariffs on all Canadian goods. Freeland left cabinet on Dec. 16 in a stinging resignation letter, saying she was at odds with Trudeau over a number of policies, including the GST tax holiday break and $250 cheques the government had planned to hand out to working Canadians.Freeland called them “costly political gimmicks,” which she didn’t think Canadians can afford with the economic threat of tariffs looming.
In an interview on “The Daily Show” with Jon Stewart on Monday night, Carney stopped short of endorsing the policy, noting much of Canada’s overall emissions come from industrial emitters and not consumers.
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