ABOVE THE FOLD
WHAT FIRST MINISTERS WANT — Fresh off the all-premiers’ meeting in Halifax, Canada’s first ministers are cranking up the heat on Prime Minister JUSTIN TRUDEAU — and it’s a welcome crusade for Premier DOUG FORD in particular.
What the meeting was supposed to be about: The Council of the Federation summit was supposed to be all about health care, with housing and infrastructure also on the official docket.
What it was actually about: Behind closed doors, Alberta’s threat to quit CPP and Ottawa’s move to pause the carbon levy on home heating oil amid Atlantic dissent were hot topics.
At the closing presser, the premiers called out the carbon tax — something Ford and the PCs have been going hard against. Manitoba’s WAB KINEW said it’s not a “silver bullet” to solve climate change while New Brunswick’s BLAINE HIGGS noted there’s an “affordability crisis across the country.”
“Jurisdictional creep”: Meanwhile, Ford isn’t happy that the feds are bypassing the …