Canada's Conservative leader unveils climate plan without carbon pricing

Canada’s Conservative Party leader unveiled his long-awaited climate and environmental plan on Wednesday that would eliminate the current federal carbon pricing program and focus on promoting green technologies. For more than a year, Conservative chief Andrew Scheer, who is currently leading in the polls, has been promising to deliver a climate plan that would replace Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s so-called “carbon tax.” “More and more Canadians are starting to realize that paying a tax isn’t going to help the environment,” Scheer said, speaking at a protected park in Quebec. “A carbon tax is not an environmental plan.” Scheer, unlike some conservatives in the United States, recognizes that “climate change is real” and says federal action is needed.