Nova Scotia ‘will not be implementing a carbon tax,’ premier says
HALIFAX — Nova Scotia’s premier dug in hard against Ottawa’s carbon price scheme Tuesday, saying his province “definitely won’t” impose a carbon tax.
Stephen McNeil also backed a decision by his environment minister, Margaret Miller, to walk out of federal-provincial meetings in Montreal over Ottawa’s plan.
Miller joined her counterparts from Newfoundland and Labrador and Saskatchewan who also left Monday’s climate-change talks after Prime Minister Justin Trudeau stood in the House of Commons and dropped his plan on the provinces.
“We talked about it,” said McNeil. “When it became obvious, when the prime minister stood up, that they’d already made up their mind . . . it just became obvious that the minister should come home and figure out how we fit into this.”