Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will try to shift the focus from the SNC-Lavalin affair to his preferred campaign battleground -- climate change -- with the release this week of the Liberal party's first election-year ads.
Radio ads will air in the four provinces where the federal government is imposing a carbon tax after their conservative provincial governments refused to levy their own price on carbon: Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Ontario and New Brunswick.
According to the ads, an average family of four will receive more than $600 this year in Saskatchewan, more than $300 in Ontario and Manitoba and more than $250 in New Brunswick."We have a strong plan to fight it, one that leading scientists and economists support. It makes polluters pay and gives the money back to people."
The first payments will be visible to residents in the four provinces when they file their taxes this spring -- in plenty of time to register with voters before they head to the polls in October. Liberal party spokesman Braeden Caley says the rally and the radio ads have been planned for months -- long before the SNC-Lavalin affair engulfed Trudeau's government this month with allegations of political interference in the justice system. But the timing is felicitous as the Liberals seek to change the channel from the controversy.
The director of public prosecutions, Kathleen Roussel, decided last September not to negotiate a remediation agreement with SNC-Lavalin, a legal option that would force the company to pay stiff penalties without the risk of a criminal conviction that could cripple it financially.
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