In the 2019 election, more than six in 10 Canadians cast a ballot for parties that support the idea of a carbon tax. That proportion is unlikely to decrease in the next election as more young people—inspired perhaps by Greta Thunberg’s activism or images of the damage caused by Australia’s bushfires—become eligible to vote for the first time. And according to a recent Nanos Research poll published in the Globe and Mail, more Canadians ranked the environment as their top issue (35 per cent) than the economy (25 per cent). The only place where the environment wasn’t a higher priority than the economy was—you guessed it—the Prairies.
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