From: brewnoser2@gmail.com   
      
       
   This will take some pressure off provinces like Alberta and Saskatchewan - by   
   placing the 'blame' for any tax onto the feds.  But if the current carbon   
   taxes out there - as in BC, Alberta, Ontario and Quebec - are not high enough   
   to make a difference,    
   they'll be adjusting theirs upwards as well.   
      
   Takes courage to be the 'big bad tax imposer' as the Trudeau government is   
   doing - but then it's early in the 4-year mandate and this is the best time to   
   deliver sour milk.   
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   National Post/Reuters | September 18, 2016   
      
      
   Ottawa will impose a carbon tax on any province that doesn’t adequately cut   
   emissions, minister says   
      
      
   The federal government will impose a carbon price on provinces that do not   
   adequately regulate emissions by themselves, Environment Minister Catherine   
   McKenna said on Sunday without giving details on how the Liberal government   
   will do so.   
      
   She said the government will have a “backstop” for provinces which do not   
   comply.  She did not elaborate or address questions on penalties for defiance.   
      
   Canada’s 10 provinces, which enjoy significant jurisdiction over the   
   environment, have been wary of Ottawa’s intentions and have said they should   
   be allowed to cut carbon emissions their own way.   
      
   Prime Minister Justin Trudeau persuaded the provinces in March to accept a   
   compromise deal that acknowledged the concept of putting a price on carbon   
   emissions, but agreed the specific details, which would take into account   
   provinces’ individual    
   circumstances, could be worked out later.   
      
   Canada’s four largest provinces, British Columbia, Alberta, Ontario and   
   Quebec, currently have either a tax on carbon or a cap-and-trade   
   emissions-limiting system.   
      
   But Brad Wall, the right-leaning premier of the western energy-producing   
   province of Saskatchewan, has long been resistant to federal emi   
   sions-limiting plans.   
      
   McKenna said the government requires some uniformity in emissions reductions,   
   but provinces can have different regulation methods.   
   “We have two systems,” she said.  “We’re going to need to figure out   
   equivalency on those systems.”   
      
   McKenna did not address questions on whether the government will update its   
   emission targets, which were set by former Conservative government.   
      
   The previous government had pledged to cut greenhouse gas emissions to 30   
   percent below 2005 levels by 2030, a target that official figures show is out   
   of reach in the absence of radical measures.   
      
   McKenna had called the prices “a floor, not a ceiling,” but said on Sunday   
   only that the government will meet the previous targets “at least.”   
      
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