“It’s not a handful of conservative politicians and premiers that are going to turn me away from continuing the fight against climate change,” Trudeau said Friday during a news conference in Vaughan, Ont., outside Toronto.Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, right, Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland, left, and Housing Minister Sean Fraser use facial recognition features on their phones to vote in Parliament during a housing announcement in Vaughan, Ont., on Friday, April 12, 2024.
The New Democrats are facing political headwinds when it comes to carbon pricing, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau acknowledged Friday, although he doesn’t get why they seem to be having second thoughts. The NDP has long championed the idea of putting a price on pollution, even campaigning on it in the 2019 election.
But this week, the party shifted its tone, saying carbon pricing is not the “be-all, end-all” and encouraging premiers to come up with new ideas to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions.