OTTAWA – Former federal environment minister Catherine McKenna says the Justin Trudeau government’s efforts to explain the consumer carbon price to Canadians were “half-hearted” — and just getting a meeting with the prime minister to discuss it “seemed impossible.”

McKenna offers those behind-the-scenes details in her new autobiography, Run Like A Girl, which is being launched next week.

McKenna, first elected in 2015, was immediately named the minister of environment and oversaw the implementation of carbon pricing in 2019. She describes in her book her struggles to defend and promote consumer carbon pricing, which was ultimately repealed by Prime Minister Mark Carney on his first day in office in March.

She says the idea of making the consumer carbon price “revenue-neutral” by rebatin

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