Three years ago, the leader of what was then Canada’s third federal political party made a major pre-election speech on the environment. The carbon tax regulations that came out last month are very different from the model outlined by Trudeau in his speech in Calgary three years ago. Under the government’s pricing regulations, each province has to adopt Ottawa’s rising carbon tax or be forced to accept the federal backstop. This hell-broth of government policy — animation on taxes and regulation, lethargy on promoting resource development — is raising hackles across the West. The younger Trudeau does remember the NEP, and yet he is still repeating its central premise.

Source: National Post February 07, 2018 23:30 UTC