, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau acknowledged Friday, but he said he doesn’t understand why they’re pulling back their support.policy, and even campaigned on it in the 2019 election.
“It’s not a handful of conservative politicians and premiers that are going to turn me away from continuing the fight against climate change, the fight for a better future and the fight to put more money in people’s pockets,” Trudeau said Friday in Vaughn, Ont., a city northwest of Toronto. “I’m certainly feeling it, everyone should be feeling it, by folks out there who are worried about affordability, who are worried about climate change.”
The Tories have introduced more than 20 motions in the House under leader Pierre Poilievre to scrap the federal carbon price. The NDP voted against all but two of them.