Conservatives’ “climate plan” is a tax break for big business with no plan to help workers « Canada’s NDP

March 17, 2025 at 6:30 am  Federal, Politics

NDP Environment and Climate Change critic Laurel Collins made the following statement in reaction to the Conservatives promising to remove industrial carbon pricing:

“Pierre Poilievre and the Conservatives are standing at a steel plant where workers are literally losing their jobs to announce tax breaks for big oil and gas. It is honestly baffling.

Everyday Canadians are bearing the brunt of the climate crisis. Canadians are the ones paying for damage – the damages from flooded basements and damaged roofs, the damages to their communities that’ve been by hit by wildfires and heat domes. They’re also the ones bearing the costs of Donald Trump’s attacks on working Canadians through higher prices and lost jobs – leaving workers worried about putting food on the table.

Poilievre’s goal has always been to make sure giant oil and gas corporations get more tax breaks.

But Mark Carney and the Liberals aren’t the answer. The Liberals have been giving big oil and gas CEOs billions of dollars in subsidies. That won’t change with Carney, who invested billions of dollars in coal and oil.

In the climate crisis and the fight for Canadian workers, we have to put workers first. We can create good jobs by investing in building an East-West energy grid for electricity transmission and Building and Buying Canadian — including using 100 per cent Canadian steel. We can fight the climate crisis and make big polluters pay.”

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