In November, he is due to meet the premiers to finalize a national plan on climate change, or at least the makings thereof. The climate change plan seems likely to include some kind of mechanism for pricing carbon. In a speech two years ago, the former prime minister presented an alluring definition of what constitutes real leadership. "Leadership does not consist of imposing unpopular ideas on the public, but of making unpopular ideas acceptable to the nation." Can he win the arguments and establish wide acceptance for contested ideas like pricing carbon and building pipelines?

Source: CBC News September 19, 2016 09:00 UTC