Trudeau rejects request from premiers for emergency meeting to discuss carbon tax
By Isaac Lamoureux, True North Wire Five provincial premiers have personally sent letters to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, urging him to convene an emergency first ministers’ meeting to discuss the carbon tax. The unified stance follows recent polling showing that seven in 10 Canadians oppose the carbon tax, and an equal seven in 10 provincial premiers previously called for carbon tax relief. Just before the April 1 carbon tax increase of 23%, the first premier to write a letter last Saturday was Newfoundland and Labrador’s Andrew Furey. I have asked the Prime Minister to convene a meeting to discuss...
By Isaac Lamoureux, True North Wire Five provincial premiers have personally sent letters to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, urging him to convene an emergency first ministers’ meeting to discuss the carbon tax. The unified stance follows recent polling showing...
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