Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will push the world to negotiate a minimum price on pollution at the COP-26 climate talks in Glasgow, Scotland, today, a move with which our Premier agrees.

Trudeau will start his second and final day at the climate negotiations by co-hosting a carbon pricing event where he will showcase Canada’s carbon price as one of the most ambitious in the world.

He compares the idea to the 15 per cent minimum corporate tax that more than 130 countries have agreed to implement in a bid to stop big multinational corporations from avoiding taxes by funneling their profits through low-tax countries.

Premier Andrew Furey says the oil and gas industry is already moving to lower emissions.

He says oil and gas will be with us for decades to come so we have to make sure we have a lower carbon footprint off our shores as we already see investments in lowering the flares and investments in technology.

Carbon pricing has been a political minefield in Canada, with opposing Conservative provincial premiers taking their fight all the way to the Supreme Court, which upheld the program.