Poll suggests majority support for national carbon price as ministers meet

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Poll suggests majority support for national carbon price as ministers meet

Seventy-seven per cent of respondents supported or somewhat supported creating national plan.

Bruce Cheadle, The Canadian Press on October 3, 2016

Canada’s federal, provincial and territorial environment ministers will take a first crack today at hashing out a national plan for meeting the country’s international climate commitments.

The long-awaited meeting in Montreal comes almost a year after Justin Trudeau’s Liberals won a majority mandate on a green election platform that included pricing carbon.

And it comes as a debate in the House of Commons gets underway today leading to a vote by MPs on Wednesday as to whether Canada should formally ratify last year’s Paris climate accord at the United Nations.

A new public opinion survey suggests there’s a reservoir of good will for federal leadership, including majority backing for a minimum national price on CO2 emissions.

In the telephone poll by Nanos Research, 77 per cent of respondents supported or somewhat supported creating a national plan in order to achieve the carbon cuts Canada agreed to under the Paris accord.

And among the 1,000 survey respondents, 59 per cent supported or somewhat supported pricing emissions, with 62 per cent saying they’d support a minimum carbon price that applies across the country.

The poll, conducted Sept. 24-27, is considered accurate within plus or minus 3.1 percentage points, 19 times out of 20.

A date has yet to be nailed down for when Prime Minister Trudeau will meet with the premiers to finalize a pan-Canadian plan this fall, and provincial environment ministers made it clear heading into today’s meeting that there’s still a lot of negotiating ahead.

 

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Poll suggests majority support for national carbon price as ministers meet