Singh Changes Carbon Tax Stance, Criticizes Trudeau’s Climate Policy

Singh Changes Carbon Tax Stance, Criticizes Trudeau’s Climate Policy
NDP leader Jagmeet Singh delivers a speech at a three-day caucus retreat in Ottawa, on Jan. 18, 2023. Adrian Wyld/The Canadian Press
Jennifer Cowan
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Jagmeet Singh is distancing the federal New Democrats from the Liberal government’s heavily criticized carbon-pricing policy, saying the much debated consumer tax is not a necessity to address climate change.

The NDP leader’s seeming about-face on the issue was highlighted during a speech he delivered at the Broadbent Institute’s annual policy conference in Ottawa on April 11.