Make the Next Federal Vote a ‘Carbon Tax Election,’ Poilievre Challenges Trudeau

Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre holds a press conference regarding his “Axe the Tax” message in St. John’s on Oct. 27, 2023. The Canadian Press/Paul Daly

The Conservatives moved on Nov. 1 to make carbon pricing the ballot box question in the next election, seizing on the public’s anxiety about affordability, and seeing a crack in the Liberals’ carbon-price armour.

“A carbon tax election,” Leader Pierre Poilievre proposed in a speech to his caucus in Ottawa.