Canada’s Conservative Party leader Pierre Poilievre vowed Monday to eliminate all federal carbon fees if he’s elected prime minister.
Poilievre, who is expected to challenge new Liberal Prime Minister Mark Carney, said he’d end a federal policy that charges industrial businesses with high carbon intensity levels.
“A commonsense Canada-first Conservative government will repeal the entire carbon tax,” Poilievre said at a news conference in Ontario. “There will be no taxes on consumers, no taxes on Canadian industries.”
His comments came after Carney removed a separate tax Friday, his first day in office, that most Canadian consumers paid on fossil fuel products including gasoline, diesel fuel and natural gas. Carney, an economist and political newcomer, replaced Prime Minister Justin Trudeau after winning a landslide election to lead the governing Liberal Party.
