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The Syncrude plant in Fort McMurray, Alberta. The federal Trudeau government's carbon pricing plan is expected to come into effect next January and apply to provinces that the federal government says have not put in place adequate plans to reduce carbon emissions. .
(Jason Franson / THE CANADIAN PRESS)
With Saskatchewan and Ontario fighting a national carbon tax plan imposed by Prime Minister Trudeau's Liberal government, new research suggests that A majority of Canadians believe the provinces should "
The federal Trudeau government's plan for carbon pricing is set to come into effect next January and will apply to provinces that the federal government says are no longer in place. have not put in place adequate plans to reduce carbon emissions.
But two in three Canadians (64%) believe it should be the provinces that decide how to reduce emissions, not Ottawa, according to a new Angus Reid Institute poll released Thursday.
The rest (36%) Ontario Premier Doug Ford, left, and Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe speak with reporters and tell them the government The federal government should have the power to implement its own plan if necessary. are meeting in St. Andrews, NB Thursday, July 19, 2018. Ford and Moe have agreed to fight the federal government's plan to impose a carbon tax. (Andrew Vaughan / THE CANADIAN PRESS)
The specific ways in which Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe and his new Ontario Premier Doug Ford have challenged the federal plan are perceived differently.
Seven in ten Canadians (72 per cent), including nearly 88 per cent of Saskatchewan respondents say that Moe is right in challenging the Trudeau plan in court, arguing that his province has its own plan in place .
By contrast, half of Canadians (51 per cent) Just over half of Ontarians (55 per cent) say that Ford's recent decision to terminate the cap-and-trade program in Canada Ontario was the right one.
The survey also reveals that the overwhelming majority of Conservative voters (82%) provinces should maintain jurisdictional control over carbon pricing. Former Liberal and NDP (NDP) voters are also divided on these issues
. Less than half of Canadians (45%) support the federal carbon tax plan. This is relatively unchanged from last year (44%), but represents a significant drop from 56% support for the idea in 2015, when the Liberal government came to power.
Just over half of Canadians (56%) global warming is real and mainly caused by human industrial activity. One in five (20%) say that it is real but caused by natural processes. The rest is divided between uncertainty (11 percent) or total disagreement (14 percent), the poll shows.
