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<div>Carbon tax’s fate uncertain as Liberal leadership front-runners distance themselves from key policy</div>
News January 17, 2025 1 min read 0 views

Carbon tax’s fate uncertain as Liberal leadership front-runners distance themselves from key policy

A woman gasses up at a gas station in Mississauga, Ont., Tuesday, February 13, 2024. Ontario Premier Doug Ford says his government will introduce legislation that would put any future provincial carbon pricing program to a referendum. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Christopher Katsarov

Former finance minister Chrystia Freeland would drop the consumer carbon tax — one of the Liberal government’s signature environmental policies — if elected leader, said a source close to her campaign. And in his campaign launch on Thursday, Mark Carney did not defend the scheme as he had in the past.

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