Despite implementing a carbon tax to incentivize “people and businesses to pollute less,” Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced Thursday that his government would pause applying carbon pricing to home heating oil deliveries for three years in Atlantic Canada. Conservative opposition leader Pierre Poilievre suggests the decision was made as Trudeau sits in “panic mode” as a federal election looms. David Akin reports.
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