Prime Minister Justin Trudeau at a fireside chat on finance joked with Liberal MP Ryan Turnbull that caucus members aren’t to refer to “tax” — as “tax.” Turnbull recounted Trudeau’s question to him before going out on stage, which was “what do all these people want, what is their ask?”Turnbull told the prime minister “we want to get a green transition taxonomy over the finish line and mandatory climate disclosures.” “No matter how often I tell Ryan, ‘stop pushing for anything with the word tax in it,’ he keeps pushing for taxonomy,” replied Trudeau, laughing. “It was kind of a nerdy moment,” said Turnbull, also laughing, “I know we’ve called it ‘sustainable finance guidelines,’ and —”“Yes, that’s a little better to explain things to people,” said Trudeau. .Trudeau at G20 in Brazil pushing carbon tax, meeting with Biden, Starmer, Meloni .Speaking at the same Sustainable Finance Forum armchair discussion, Trudeau made similar comments, regarding Canadians choosing between a roof over their heads and food in their children's’ mouths versus saving the environment through carbon taxation, as he did speaking at the G20 summit in Brazil.“People are anxious,” Trudeau told Turnbull.“It's understandable. And right now, when people are squeezed every single day at the grocery store, in paying the rent, in thinking about whether their jobs are going to hold them to retirement, what their kids are going to do, it's really easy to scare people into being even more anxious and thinking even more short-term, and more limited.”“The pressures we're facing are not going to go away. They're only going to get worse, particularly around climate change, which will worsen every other challenge we're facing, whether it's geopolitics, whether it's economic pressures, whether it's supply chains.”.Trudeau wraps G20 by scolding host country for weak stance on Ukraine.WATCH: Trudeau wants families to prioritize climate change over feeding their kids.“Climate change makes it all worse," lamented Trudeau. “So people are stuck in a situation where they know climate change is bad, but they also know that if they can't put food on the table this week, and if they can't stabilize their living situation this year, how bad it's going to be 10 years from now, or how terrible it will be for their grandkids, has to fall second to taking care of their family, their loved ones and their themselves.”“Right now, fighting climate change right now is going to help you. Right now in your job, right now in your family finances, right now, in how you feel right now about the future.”
