Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott met with Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper on Monday for talks to form a center-right alliance to thwart carbon pricing and other global attempts to mitigate the effects of climate change.
The pair signaled that they want to coalesce “like-minded” countries – the five Commonwealth countries of Australia, Britain, Canada, India, and New Zealand – to oppose efforts such as the Obama administration’s press for climate change moves through forums like the G20.
Abbott and Harper say that policies that aim to ease the effects of a warming Earth – such as a carbon tax – are left-liberal schemes to impose higher taxes and further state intervention into the economy.
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