This week Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced a new plan to set a minimum carbon tax. The announcement outlined that provinces will have to adopt a carbon tax or a cap-and-trade system of their own, or Ottawa will impose its own tax – starting with $10 a tonne in 2018, going up by $10 each year to $50 a tonne by 2022. U of T News asked four experts including political scientists Matthew Hoffmann, co-director of Munk School’s Environmental Governance Lab and Sara Hughes, whether a pan-Canadian agreement can be reached. The full article is available here.