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UCP candidate Glasgo still facing backlash after church carbon tax correction

Jan 29, 2019 | 6:16 AM

MEDICINE HAT- A candidate for the United Conservative Party in the Brooks – Medicine Hat riding has backtracked on the comment she made over the weekend about the carbon tax.

Michaela Glasgo tweeted that her church in Medicine Hat is facing a carbon tax bill this year in the range of $50.000.

Glasgo was mocked and abused on Twitter for the comment and told to produce the evidence.

She now says after checking with the Hillcrest Missionary Church that the number is actually about one-tenth that number, at $5.000.

Church pastor Steve Pahl says, the $50.000 figure, refers to total costs facing the church, adding that many in the congregation support action on environmental issues.

Glasgo says it was an honest mistake.

But a spokesman for Environment Minister Shannon Phillips says too often the UCP repeat false information in order to stir up anger among voters.

UCP Leader Jason Kenney has said the carbon tax only hurts families while doing nothing to reduce greenhouse gases.

He says if his party wins the spring election, the first act of his government will be to dismantle the tax.

(CHAT News Today – The Canadian Press)