Terry Duguid takes environment file as Carney vows to end carbon tax
Manitoba’s Terry Duguid takes over for environment and climate change — a portfolio close to Carney’s heart.
The prime minister served as a UN special envoy on climate action and finance, and was once a proponent of carbon pricing on the world stage.
But that was then.
Carney campaigned on dropping the carbon tax and repeated in his acceptance speech Sunday that he’d “immediately eliminate the divisive consumer carbon tax on families, farmers and small- and medium-sized businesses.”
He moved carbon tax defender Steven Guilbeault to a new “Canadian culture and identity” file and made him Quebec lieutenant.
While Carney has repeatedly signalled that he will not be keeping the consumer carbon tax, Conservative attack ads claim he will bring in a “shadow tax” and continue to campaign on the issue.
It will be interesting to see Duguid’s approach to that fight.