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If Prime Minister Justin Trudeau genuinely believes a carbon tax is a sound national policy that most Canadians support, why didn’t he implement it himself, instead of cynically contracting out the job to provincial governments?

A federally-regulated, national, revenue-neutral carbon tax would certainly be more transparent and less confusing for Canadians than the bureaucratic mess he’s created by saddling the provinces with the responsibility of implementing it.

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Especially since Ontario, Saskatchewan, Manitoba and Prince Edward Island oppose Trudeau’s national carbon pricing scheme.

PEI’s opposition is politically significant because it means provincial opposition to Trudeau’s plan crosses party lines.

Liberal Premier Wade MacLauchlan, of PEI, has joined Progressive Conservative governments led by Premier Doug Ford in Ontario, Premier Brian Pallister in Manitoba and Saskatchewan Party Premier Scott Moe, in refusing to implement Trudeau’s minimum (aka “backstop”) national carbon price.