P.E.I., Quebec intervene in Saskatchewan’s legal challenge of carbon tax
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OTTAWA — Prince Edward Island and Quebec have petitioned to become interveners in Saskatchewan’s legal challenge of the federal carbon tax.
P.E.I.’s Progressive Conservative Premier Dennis King says he does not want to be seen as a Progressive Conservative premier joining the “resistance” of other conservative provincial leaders across the country fighting the Trudeau government’s carbon tax.
He says P.E.I. is joining the court challenge simply because he wants his province to have the chance to speak up in court, if necessary — possibly even to support the tax.
King met Justin Trudeau today in Ottawa and says he told the prime minister he’s in favour of the federal Liberals’ carbon-pricing program, but also wants to find ways to reward carbon-reduction measures rather than just penalizing emitters and consumers.
