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Freedom Conservative Party leader Derek Fildebrandt says one of his campaign’s main planks, the elimination of Alberta’s carbon tax, would likely bring an abrupt stop to Calgary’s Green Line LRT project, which is partially funded by the levy.

“The Green Line has been a disaster,” Fildebrandt said Saturday, as he rolled out the party’s full platform and its budget at the Bridgeland community centre.

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“(Calgary) Mayor (Naheed) Nenshi has completely bungled the program and I don’t think he has proved to the taxpayers of Calgary and Alberta that he can be trusted with that amount of money without a reasonable level of accountability.

“If we want to see an expansion of LRT, including the Green Line in Calgary, then we’re going to have to find another way to pay for it.”

The platform plank comes just days after the federal carbon tax came into effect in Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Ontario and New Brunswick — provinces without their own carbon pricing programs. Fildebrandt, who was exiled from Jason Kenney’s United Conservative Party last February before forming the new libertarian party, said they will join court challenges against the federal carbon tax.