Prime Minister Trudeau talks carbon tax, Chignecto Isthmus and future of the RCMP
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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau sat down Monday for an interview with CTV Atlantic’s Todd Battis. The one-on-one covered a range of topics, including carbon pricing, the future of the RCMP and the relationship between the federal government and Atlantic premiers.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau sat down Monday for an interview with CTV Atlantic’s Todd Battis. The one-on-one covered a range of topics, including carbon pricing, the future of the RCMP and the relationship between the federal government and Atlantic premiers.
Trudeau’s federal government has faced backlash in recent weeks for the federal carbon-pricing program that came into effect across Atlantic Canada on July 1.
The move, which came as a result of the provinces failing to implement their own alternative carbon-pricing program, has caused gas prices to rise. Some Atlantic Canadians are wondering whether their Climate Action Incentive Payment will make up for the extra costs associated with clean fuel regulations.
The Atlantic premiers have spent the last several weeks on an anti-carbon tax campaign.
In Nova Scotia, where Premier Tim Houston has called for Trudeau to sit down with the premiers to discuss carbon pricing, the province’s department of Environment and Climate Change spent $56,000 in taxpayer dollars for a two-week advertising campaign opposing a carbon tax.
But Trudeau says the quarterly Climate Action Incentive cheques that have begun being deposited into the bank accounts of Nova Scotians and Prince Edward Islanders ensure the federal government can fight climate change while putting money back in the pockets of Canadians in the process.
“There’s been a lot of partisan attacks around this, but the one thing that Premier Houston nor Pierre Poilievre or others talk about is these cheques are supporting Canadians directly with real dollars that are landing in their bank accounts this week,” Trudeau told Battis.
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