Environment Minister attempts to add heft to climate-change talking points

Canadian Press: Environment Minister Peter Kent is attempting to put some heft behind the Conservatives' climate-change talking points that have driven Parliament Hill to distraction over the past week. In an interview with The Canadian Press, Kent said the NDP's cap-and-trade proposal to reduce greenhouse gas emissions amounts to a carbon tax by definition, simply because it would see the government generating revenue. The opposition party's election platform from 2011 shows the scheme would see Ottawa collecting...

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