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Trudeau’s new carbon tax is a can’t-lose gambit

Politically, Trudeau’s everybody-wins carbon tax may end up spiking the guns of his Conservative adversaries. But will it address climate change in any real way? I’m not sure it will.

Opinion
BY THOMAS WALKOM
October 29, 2018

Opinion | BY THOMAS WALKOM | October 29, 2018

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