Tory MP Leslyn Lewis Criticizes Feds’ Spending on WEF Report Promoting Carbon Tax

Conservative MP Leslyn Lewis is criticizing the Liberal government for providing nearly half a million dollars to the World Economic Forum (WEF) to produce an environmental report promoting the carbon tax. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau paid the WEF nearly $500,000 “of Canadian taxpayer money for the New Nature Economy Report justifying his carbon tax,” Ms. Lewis says in a March 18 social media post. “Global interest groups should not be trusted to care about the prosperity of Canadians.” Ms. Lewis has been the foremost critic of the WEF within the Conservative ranks. She has routinely unearthed information about cooperation between Ottawa and the WEF through access-to-information requests available to MPs....