Posted on 08/30/2018 11:24:03 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
OTTAWA - Provinces that don't get on board with the federal Liberals' plan to deal with climate change, including putting a price on pollution, will forfeit their share of a $2-billion federal fund, Environment Minister Catherine McKenna says.
The Liberals find themselves with multiple provinces opposing aspects of the plan, from new clean fuel standards to carbon pricing through a tax or cap and trade.
McKenna said no one should question the government's commitment to combating climate change and the pan-Canadian plan it unveiled shortly after taking office in late 2015.
"There's no backing away from climate change," McKenna said following an event in Ottawa.
Provinces have until the weekend to submit their climate change plans for federal scrutiny and a failing grade will lead to Ottawa's imposition of a carbon price on that province.
Speaking to secondary school students in Kapuskasing, Ont., Trudeau said his government would move ahead with its carbon pricing plan with or without provincial agreement.
The federal climate plan calls for taxes on greenhouse gas emissions starting at $10 per tonne this year and rising by $10 a year to $50 a tonne in 2022. It leaves it to the provinces to decide how to do that, either through a tax or a cap-and-trade system.
Saskatchewan's plan, released just before McKenna's event, didn't include a carbon tax but allows heavy emitters to buy offset credits or pay into a technology fund.
In a statement, Dustin Duncan panned a carbon tax and said measures taken by his government "demonstrate why the federal backstop should not be imposed on Saskatchewan businesses, industries, communities and families."
McKenna wouldn't say if Saskatchewan's plan is enough to pass the Liberals' climate change litmus test. She said she wanted to read it in more detail.
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“...”There’s no backing away from climate change,” McKenna said...”
No, McKenna. Just walk away. Screw you and all your communist carbon tax BS.
These people are pure evil.
When it’s so bad that you have to bribe and blackmail the provinces to put up with the BS, it’s gotta be bad.
Now we see that it was all planned.
Hillary becomes President....has a year to address USA issues and cover her tracks.
And then in 2019, The USA and Canada turn the switch on a global tax managed by they UN.
Boy did we dodge that bullet.
Trudeau needs to be drop kicked into the arctic ice. When can Canada vote this soyboy out of office?
This seems all too familiar. Looks like Trudeau must be getting his advice from Obama (or whoever was pulling his strings). I guess if it’s for a really good reason (cough, cough).....
4 provinces (BC, Alberta, Saskatchewan and Newfoundland) are the main contributors to the fedgov here, all the rest are paid by the feds.
The feds think that they can withhold payment from those actually paying the bills? This PM is beyond stupid.
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