Politics
Trudeau Hikes Carbon Tax in Bid to Reach 2030 Climate Goal
- Plan aims to cut emissions 40% below 2005 levels within decade
- Move to increase levy will rile provinces, burden consumers
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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau stepped up efforts to hit Canada’s emissions targets by 2030, pledging billions in new money to combat climate change and increasing his government’s carbon tax.
The measures, announced Friday in Ottawa by Trudeau and Environment Minister Jonathan Wilkinson, seek to put the resource-rich northern nation on track to cut greenhouse-gas emissions by as much as 40% below 2005 levels by the end of this decade, versus the current 30% goal.