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Newly minted Ontario Premier Doug Ford is coming to Alberta next month for a United Conservative Party rally opposing carbon tax programs.

Ford will attend the free Oct. 5 event at the BMO Centre, where he’ll be hosted by UCP Leader Jason Kenney.

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Ford scrapped Ontario’s cap-and-trade system after taking office in June and has vowed to legally challenge the federal government’s contentious carbonpricing plan.

Alberta’s broad-based carbon levy, a core element of the NDP government’s climate plan, is $30 per tonne of carbon dioxide emissions. When applied to gasoline, the tax is almost seven cents per litre.

Kenney has vowed to repeal Alberta’s carbon tax should the UCP form government following next spring’s provincial election.

The federal climate plan — to take effect in January — calls for taxes on greenhouse gas emissions starting at $10 per tonne and rising by $10 a year to $50 a tonne in 2022.