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VANCOUVER — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and the provincial premiers managed to bridge deep divides over carbon pricing Thursday en route to Canada’s first national consensus on pursuing climate policy.

But the deal hammered out in Vancouver by Trudeau and 13 provincial and territorial leaders appears destined to be relitigated in the months ahead as the hard details of the agreement take shape.

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“The transition to a low-carbon economy will happen by a broad suite of measures, which will include pricing carbon,” Trudeau said at the conclusion of a scheduled five-hour meeting that stretched into more than six.

“That is something that we’ve all committed to.”

He said the first ministers will reconvene next fall, after four working groups report back on broad policy areas, “where we will finalize a pan-Canadian plan” to combat climate change.

The prime minister readily conceded that the first ministers have challenges ahead.