Alberta Premier Jason Kenney pleaded with Ottawa to delay planned hikes to the national carbon tax on April 1..“Please, stop doing harm… throw us a lifeline here,” Kenney said at an Edmonton press conference on Wednesday..“It absolutely makes no sense….do no harm.”.He said he met last week in Ottawa with Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland and told her to consider a delay..“We have an industry, to be blunt, that is on life-support,” Kenney said..He said many Calgary energy companies had lost 90 per cent of their value in the last 3 weeks..The federal tax is currently $20 a tonne and will rise $10 a year, on April 1 of each year until it hits $50 a tonne in 2022..Dave Naylor is the News Editor of the Western Standard.dnaylor@westernstandardonline.com.Twitter: Nobby7694
