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“Bring it on.”

That was Conservative leader Andrew Scheer’s response Wednesday to Justin Trudeau’s defence of the Liberal carbon tax and the Liberals’ willingness to fight the 2019 election on its imposition on provinces like Ontario and Saskatchewan that have served notice they won’t comply with federal carbon-pricing legislation.

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The Conservatives have made it clear they see the cost to the average family of Trudeau’s carbon tax as their preferred ballot question next year, particularly after Doug Ford’s Ontario government cancelled the province’s cap-and-trade regime and joined Saskatchewan in its court battle contesting Ottawa’s jurisdictional right to impose the tax.

But new research will be released next week that is set to transform the debate.

The National Post obtained an advance copy of a paper to be released by Canadians for Clean Prosperity, a non-partisan group led by Mark Cameron, ex-policy director to Stephen Harper, that promotes putting a price on pollution and cutting taxes.