Carbon price could see Liberals ‘annihilated,’ Ford says as Trudeau, Smith meet | Globalnews.ca

If you get Global News from Instagram or Facebook - that will be changing. Find out how you can still connect with us. “If they don’t start putting money back in people’s pockets instead of filling their pockets, guess what? They’re going to get annihilated, as I’ve said before, they’re done. They’re done like dinner,” Ford said at a housing announcement in Pickering, Ont. Wednesday. This happened as Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Alberta Premier Danielle Smith are meeting in Calgary on Wednesday as pushback grows from provincial premiers to a planned carbon price increase. The federal backstop is set to rise from $65 a tonne to $80 a tonne on April 1. This means the fuel charge on gasoline will go from 14.3 cents per litre to 17.6 cents. “We’ve now seen seven premiers have suggested that we need a pause on April 1, so I’m very hopeful that we can maybe come to some solution on that and address issues of affordability,” Smith said during a photo-op prior to the meeting with Trudeau

Ontario Premier Doug Ford says he “doesn’t understand for the life of [him] what the federal government is thinking” in going ahead with the planned carbon price increase on April 1. “If they don’t start putting money back in people’s pockets instead of filling their pockets, guess what? They’re going to get annihilated, as I’ve said before, they’re done. They’re done like dinner,” Ford said at a housing announcement in Pickering, Ont. Wednesday. This happened as Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Alberta Premier Danielle Smith a

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