Singh Changes Carbon Tax Stance, Criticizes Trudeau’s Climate Policy

Jagmeet Singh is distancing the federal New Democrats from the Liberal government’s heavily criticized carbon-pricing policy, saying the much debated consumer tax is not a necessity to address climate change. The NDP leader’s seeming about-face on the issue was highlighted during a speech he delivered at the Broadbent Institute’s annual policy conference in Ottawa on April 11. He described the Liberal carbon-pricing plan as divisive, adding that it is targeting the wrong demographic. “Fighting the climate crisis … can’t be done by letting working people, by letting working families, bear the cost of climate change while big polluters make bigger and bigger profits,” he said....