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There’s not much linking the inhabitants of Vancouver, Calgary, Winnipeg, Montreal and Halifax, beyond the fact they all hate Toronto.

Canada was built upon the principle of mutual accommodation – the idea that people can change their behaviour to interact more harmoniously.

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But to this point, there’s been scarce evidence of any pan-Canadian consensus when it comes to carbon taxes or pipelines

A new poll by Abacus Data reveals deep regional and partisan divisions over carbon use and pipelines. Respondents were given a brief description of the Trudeau government’s new national carbon tax plan and asked whether they think it is good, acceptable or bad. Nationally, 69 per cent thought the idea of introducing a national price on carbon in 2018 is good or acceptable.

But that number disguised entrenched opposition in the oil-producing provinces of Alberta and Saskatchewan, where about two thirds of respondents deemed the new tax a bad idea. A similar number of Conservatives Party supporters across the country rejects it.