Former finance minister Chrystia Freeland would drop the consumer carbon tax — one of the Liberal government’s signature environmental policies — if elected leader, said a source close to her campaign.
The source, who was not authorized to speak publicly, told CBC News the former deputy prime minister will “make difficult decisions to meet our emissions targets and make sure big polluters pay for their outsized emissions.”
But the source said Freeland “will not fight Canadians on a policy they have been clear they do not support.”
Update: Mark Carney, Chrystia Freeland would scrap consumer carbon tax if elected Liberal leader, sources say
The consumer price on carbon is dead.
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre can pat himself on the back — all those rallies, all those ads, all those talking points in the House of Commons — the case against the carbon price was so successfully prosecuted that the two leading Liberal leadership candidates are walking away from it.
The Star has learned that former Bank of Canada governor Mark Carney, who will announce his leadership bid Thursday in Edmonton, has been telling Liberal MPs in private conversations that he will repeal the consumer price, focus on industrial emitters instead, but also recognize that the Trudeau government’s approach did put more money back into people’s pockets, and so will deliver a middle class tax break as compensation.
Have they promised a corporate tax won’t be passed down to consumers.
