But in an exclusive interview with the Star, she admitted the file — her signature policy, one that faces five provinces’ resistance — has been “really hard.”VANCOUVER—Environment Minister Catherine McKenna insisted Thursday that premier-designate Jason Kenney’s pledge to scrap the Alberta carbon tax cannot derail her national climate plan. She said her government will now have to rely on her “backstop” basic carbon price imposed on provinces that didn’t create their own policies. Kenney promised his “Bill 1” in Alberta’s legislature will be to repeal outgoing NDP Premier Rachel Notley’s carbon tax, which she implemented along with oilsands emissions limits. In Kenney’s election-night victory speech on Tuesday, he told cheering supporters that “the carbon tax is all economic pain, and no environmental gain.”“This is just a political fight the Conservatives are doing,” McKenna added. On Thursday, the Ontario Court of Appeal finished four days of hearings in that province’s lawsuit against the carbon tax.

Source: thestar April 19, 2019 01:18 UTC