carbon pricing

A defining feature of the ongoing federal election campaign has been the apparent marginalization of the environment and climate change as top-of-mind issues due to threats by the United States against Canadian sovereignty, security and trade.

As Quebec becomes the last province in Canada that hasn't abandoned carbon pricing, the provincial government could start feeling pressure to align itself with the rest of the country.

The government is trying to fast-track legislation to end carbon pricing in BC the same day as the federal price is lifted.

On Friday, Prime Minister Mark Carney began the process to end the consumer carbon price on things like gasoline.

Carney says people who have been getting a rebate on the carbon price will get one final payment for the next quarter in April.

Canadians have witnessed catastrophic climate change-induced disasters over and over in recent years, but polling suggests it’s having little effect on the public’s understanding of the climate crisis. 

On Tuesday, Indigenous Services Minister Patty Hajdu, Crown-Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs Minister Gary Anandasangaree and former housing minister Sean Fraser all threw their support behind Carney on social media.

Potential candidates have just two weeks to decide to run and potential voters less than three weeks to join the party in order to vote.

Nova Scotia Premier Tim Houston said he needed a strong, fresh mandate to negotiate with the federal government on issues such as carbon pricing.

Susan Holt said her government would remove the province's four-cent-a-litre gas tax and then submit to Ottawa a "made in New Brunswick climate plan."

Subsidies to fight greenhouse gas emissions may be a more politically feasible alternative to incentivize the adoption of low-carbon technologies and behaviours.

Nova Scotia Premier Tim Houston fired the opening salvos of a snap election he called Sunday, saying he needs a strong mandate in order to help the province “stand up” to the federal government.

Our political leaders must either tax carbon “or” regulate technologies. They don’t have to do both.

Canadians are set to receive carbon pricing rebates on Tuesday, as the Liberals defend one of their most embattled policies.