Manitoba Premier Trudeau Agrees To Disagree On Role Of Carbon Tax As Cost Of Living Rises

“There are some issues we have to agree to disagree on,” Stefansson said after meeting with Trudeau in Winnipeg on Thursday. But on the carbon tax, “what I would say is just don’t take the money … out of the pockets of Canadians in the first place,” he said. A day earlier, he repeated a call for the federal government to suspend the carbon tax, linking the request to concerns about inflationary increases in the cost of living. Trudeau hit several sites during his visit to the Manitoba capital on Thursday, including a meet and greet with nursing students in a hospital training room at the University of St. Boniface, where he was asked about Stefansson’s request to end the carbon tax. “The prime minister and others across the country don’t seem to be honest” with Canadians about the impact of the tax, Trudeau told reporters before their meeting. “In places like Manitoba, where the federal pollution price is in place, average families get more money back from the pollution price than the extra pollution price costs them,” he said. Trudeau listens to nursing student Djenne Camara at St Boniface University in Winnipeg on Thursday. (John Woods/The Canadian Press) To offset higher costs from the federal tax — a “backstop” carbon price imposed by Ottawa on provinces that did not develop their own carbon pricing plan that met or exceeded the federal one — people in Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba and Ontario now receives federal climate action incentive payments every quarter. On Wednesday, Stefanson announced a series of affordability measures for Manitobans, including earmarking money to help some families better absorb rising prices due to inflation. He also called for a freeze on the federal carbon tax — now set at $50 per ton of emissions, after an increase earlier this year. “Because Manitobans need help now, we are once again calling on Prime Minister Trudeau and the Liberal government to step up and support Manitobans with immediate support measures,” he said Wednesday. “A helpful step from the Liberal government, and one we’ve already called for, would be to stop the carbon tax and give Manitobans a break in these tough economic times.” Stefansson’s remarks echo a letter she signed in March with the premiers of Alberta and Saskatchewan — two of the other provinces subject to the federal backstop — calling for the carbon tax to be suspended. Last November, he announced that Manitoba was developing a new policy and would be negotiating with Ottawa, working to have a new policy in place by the end of this year. Before their meeting Thursday, Trudeau suggested Stephenson and other provincial leaders calling for an end to the carbon reduction scheme are misleading the public by labeling the carbon tax as a factor in the high cost of living. Far from his government’s pledges to fight climate change, Trudeau said Russia’s war in Ukraine has exacerbated global supply chain problems, proving Canada needs to move faster to decarbonize its economies. . His comments came on the same day that premiers from the Atlantic provinces asked the federal government for more time to table their carbon pricing plans because of affordability concerns facing people on the East Coast. Friday is the deadline for provinces to submit those plans. Last month, the first two installments of the federal Climate Action Incentive Payments program went out to Manitobans. Federal MP Terry Duguid (Winnipeg South) said in July the payments would average about $830 a year for a family of four in the province. The credit is $416 for single Manitobans, $208 for a spouse or common-law partner, $104 per child under 19 and $208 for each child in a single-parent family. Quarterly payments were in the form of a refundable credit during the tax period. Trudeau is meeting with Stephenson at the Fort Garry Hotel in Winnipeg on Thursday. (John Woods/The Canadian Press) After their meeting, Stephenson was asked why she couldn’t temporarily suspend the provincial gas tax, as Alberta did, to ease the pressure facing Manitobans — something her finance minister had previously ruled out. Instead of answering that question, she pointed to the Manitoba Public Insurance rebates and affordability measures announced Wednesday as examples of how her Progressive Conservative government is helping people deal with inflation. Stefansson also said Thursday that she believes Ottawa is open to expanding Manitoba’s provincial nominee program so the province can take in more immigrants. “I said we’ll take as many immigrants as you’ll let us, and more,” Stefansson said. Trudeau’s visit to Winnipeg was also expected to include a stop at the Stanley Knowles Children’s Center on Thursday afternoon.

title: “Manitoba Premier Trudeau Agrees To Disagree On Role Of Carbon Tax As Cost Of Living Rises Klmat” ShowToc: true date: “2022-11-04” author: “Patricia Burkett”

“There are some issues we have to agree to disagree on,” Stefansson said after meeting with Trudeau in Winnipeg on Thursday. But on the carbon tax, “what I would say is just don’t take the money … out of the pockets of Canadians in the first place,” he said. A day earlier, he repeated a call for the federal government to suspend the carbon tax, linking the request to concerns about inflationary increases in the cost of living. Trudeau hit several sites during his visit to the Manitoba capital on Thursday, including a meet and greet with nursing students in a hospital training room at the University of St. Boniface, where he was asked about Stefansson’s request to end the carbon tax. “The prime minister and others across the country don’t seem to be honest” with Canadians about the impact of the tax, Trudeau told reporters before their meeting. “In places like Manitoba, where the federal pollution price is in place, average families get more money back from the pollution price than the extra pollution price costs them,” he said. Trudeau listens to nursing student Djenne Camara at St Boniface University in Winnipeg on Thursday. (John Woods/The Canadian Press) To offset higher costs from the federal tax — a “backstop” carbon price imposed by Ottawa on provinces that did not develop their own carbon pricing plan that met or exceeded the federal one — people in Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba and Ontario now receives federal climate action incentive payments every quarter. On Wednesday, Stefanson announced a series of affordability measures for Manitobans, including earmarking money to help some families better absorb rising prices due to inflation. He also called for a freeze on the federal carbon tax — now set at $50 per ton of emissions, after an increase earlier this year. “Because Manitobans need help now, we are once again calling on Prime Minister Trudeau and the Liberal government to step up and support Manitobans with immediate support measures,” he said Wednesday. “A helpful step from the Liberal government, and one we’ve already called for, would be to stop the carbon tax and give Manitobans a break in these tough economic times.” Stefansson’s remarks echo a letter she signed in March with the premiers of Alberta and Saskatchewan — two of the other provinces subject to the federal backstop — calling for the carbon tax to be suspended. Last November, he announced that Manitoba was developing a new policy and would be negotiating with Ottawa, working to have a new policy in place by the end of this year. Before their meeting Thursday, Trudeau suggested Stephenson and other provincial leaders calling for an end to the carbon reduction scheme are misleading the public by labeling the carbon tax as a factor in the high cost of living. Far from his government’s pledges to fight climate change, Trudeau said Russia’s war in Ukraine has exacerbated global supply chain problems, proving Canada needs to move faster to decarbonize its economies. . His comments came on the same day that premiers from the Atlantic provinces asked the federal government for more time to table their carbon pricing plans because of affordability concerns facing people on the East Coast. Friday is the deadline for provinces to submit those plans. Last month, the first two installments of the federal Climate Action Incentive Payments program went out to Manitobans. Federal MP Terry Duguid (Winnipeg South) said in July the payments would average about $830 a year for a family of four in the province. The credit is $416 for single Manitobans, $208 for a spouse or common-law partner, $104 per child under 19 and $208 for each child in a single-parent family. Quarterly payments were in the form of a refundable credit during the tax period. Trudeau is meeting with Stephenson at the Fort Garry Hotel in Winnipeg on Thursday. (John Woods/The Canadian Press) After their meeting, Stephenson was asked why she couldn’t temporarily suspend the provincial gas tax, as Alberta did, to ease the pressure facing Manitobans — something her finance minister had previously ruled out. Instead of answering that question, she pointed to the Manitoba Public Insurance rebates and affordability measures announced Wednesday as examples of how her Progressive Conservative government is helping people deal with inflation. Stefansson also said Thursday that she believes Ottawa is open to expanding Manitoba’s provincial nominee program so the province can take in more immigrants. “I said we’ll take as many immigrants as you’ll let us, and more,” Stefansson said. Trudeau’s visit to Winnipeg was also expected to include a stop at the Stanley Knowles Children’s Center on Thursday afternoon.