Liberal leadership race’s presumptive front-runners won’t continue consumer aspect of Trudeau’s most visible climate policy, sources say
The two expected front-runners for the Liberal leadership campaign would either scrap the consumer carbon price or make major changes – all but assuring one of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s legacy policies won’t last past his government.
Ms. Freeland has for years defended the existing policy, even as Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre made scrapping it his top policy promise amid an affordability crisis that the Liberals were accused of ignoring. Ms. Freeland’s lead opponent in the Liberal leadership race is former central banker Mark Carney, who also stood by theAhead of his Thursday afternoon campaign launch in Edmonton, a source with his campaign said Mr. Carney has been clear in his conversations with Liberal MPs that the consumer carbon price needs major changes.
However, by May of last year he began to soften on the consumer side of the carbon price, telling a Senate committee that the policy had been useful “until now” but that the country should be open to “better solutions.”
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