Alberta Premier Danielle Smith joined together with leaders from across the country on Monday as they called for Ottawa's carbon pricing measures to be more fair.
Almost all of Canada's premiers and territorial leaders were in Halifax for a two-day meeting that focused on health care and the effect of carbon pricing measures on the rising cost of living.
"All this is doing is just causing unfairness and making life less affordable, and really harming our most vulnerable as we get into the winter season," Alberta Premier Danielle Smith said. "If this is truly a global problem, then we need global thinking." But the move immediately drew criticism from premiers in Western Canada, where few residents and businesses use home heating oil.on a Conservative motion calling for a pricing pause on all home heating fuels.
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