Rob Ford's brother is popular with the Toronto crowd. He doesn't want a carbon tax. That will widen his popularity to other parts of the province. The other two candidates might be committing political suicide saying that they would even consider it.
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Carbon tax divides rivals for Ontario PC leadership
Doug Ford would dump it, while Caroline Mulroney did a U-turn Thursday morning
The carbon tax proposed in the Ontario Progressive Conservative platform is emerging as a key point of difference among the three candidates vying to replace Patrick Brown as party leader.
Doug Ford is vowing to scrap it, Christine Elliott is asking party members what to do about it, and Caroline Mulroney dramatically shifted her position on Thursday morning, little more than 48 hours after telling PC members she would keep it.
Brown put a carbon tax in the party platform, unveiled little more than two months ago. It is similar to the system in place in British Columbia. It would replace the cap-and-trade program introduced by Premier Kathleen Wynne's Liberal government, which requires industry to buy permits for greenhouse gas emissions.
The revenue from the carbon tax is crucial to the rest of the PC platform. It helps pay for some of the goodies that the PCs are dangling in front of voters in hopes of winning Ontario's June 7 election, including a 22 per cent income tax cut and thousands of dollars in child-care rebates.
The carbon tax would generate $4 billion over its first three years, so dumping it would blow a big hole in the party's fiscal plan.
Mulroney stated her position on the carbon earlier this week in multiple interviews and during a public chat with her campaign co-chair, federal Conservative deputy leader Lisa Raitt.
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Ontario PC leadership rivals scrap carbon tax from platform - Toronto - CBC News
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Carbon tax divides rivals for Ontario PC leadership
Doug Ford would dump it, while Caroline Mulroney did a U-turn Thursday morning
The carbon tax proposed in the Ontario Progressive Conservative platform is emerging as a key point of difference among the three candidates vying to replace Patrick Brown as party leader.
Doug Ford is vowing to scrap it, Christine Elliott is asking party members what to do about it, and Caroline Mulroney dramatically shifted her position on Thursday morning, little more than 48 hours after telling PC members she would keep it.
Brown put a carbon tax in the party platform, unveiled little more than two months ago. It is similar to the system in place in British Columbia. It would replace the cap-and-trade program introduced by Premier Kathleen Wynne's Liberal government, which requires industry to buy permits for greenhouse gas emissions.
The revenue from the carbon tax is crucial to the rest of the PC platform. It helps pay for some of the goodies that the PCs are dangling in front of voters in hopes of winning Ontario's June 7 election, including a 22 per cent income tax cut and thousands of dollars in child-care rebates.
The carbon tax would generate $4 billion over its first three years, so dumping it would blow a big hole in the party's fiscal plan.
Mulroney stated her position on the carbon earlier this week in multiple interviews and during a public chat with her campaign co-chair, federal Conservative deputy leader Lisa Raitt.
The rest here.
Ontario PC leadership rivals scrap carbon tax from platform - Toronto - CBC News
