Canada divided by carbon conundrum
Canada’s plans for raising carbon tax face mounting political and popular opposition
Four years ago, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau enjoyed broad political support for implementing a pan-national carbon pricing strategy to make meaningful reductions to Canada’s stubbornly high greenhouse gas emissions. But, where Trudeau once enjoyed the support of likeminded political leaders, the changing political landscape—following recent elections—is undermining plans to more than double carbon levies to C$50/t CO2e ($37.85/t CO2e) by 2020. When Trudeau was elected in 2015, 80pc of the country was already under some sort of carbon regime. Ontario, home to the country's industrial manufacturing heartland, and Quebec—bestowed with abundant hydroelectric resources—had joined a cap
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