Statement made on 21 April 2010 by Senator Grant Mitchell
Hon. Grant Mitchell:
Honourable senators, I have a question about climate change for the Leader of the Government in the Senate.
Recently, the Minister of the Environment explicitly said that if the United States moves ahead with cap and trade, then Canada will also proceed with it definitively; and if the U.S. advances a regulatory regime instead, then Canada will absolutely and definitively go adopt a regulatory regime. In an irony of ironies, the thinking in the U.S. is beginning to move away from cap and trade and toward carbon tax.
Given that the minister and the government are so intent on a made-in-U.S. climate change policy, if the U.S. actually moves forward with a carbon tax, will the Canadian government impose a carbon tax as well?
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