Wall promises ‘constructive role’ as premiers sit down with Trudeau on climate
VANCOUVER — Brad Wall said Saskatchewan will play a “constructive role” when the premiers sit down today in Vancouver with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to discuss climate change policies.
The first ministers’ meeting has taken on a fractious atmosphere this week amid squabbling over who was invited to the table, pipeline politics and a dispute over carbon pricing.
Wall has been in the thick of the fray in the lead-up to today’s formal sit-down, repeatedly levelling broadsides at the Liberal platform promise of putting a national price on carbon.
Expectations for the meeting — Trudeau’s second with the premiers since taking office in early November — have been repeatedly lowered and the goal now is to find a common front in continuing a process toward a national policy framework.