After facing severe political blowback for its carbon tax exemption on home heating oil last fall, Ottawa is caving to complaints again and doubling rebates for First Nations governments.
The federal carbon tax took a beating from polar opposite sides of the political spectrum this week at annual conservative and progressive conferences held just blocks from each other in Ottawa.
Conservative Party of Canada Leader Pierre Poilievre continues to evade questions about whether he would axe the carbon pricing system for industrial emitters if he forms the next government.
Two years after they occupied Ottawa and tried to replace the government, the freedom convoy is rallying around opposition to the carbon tax — and still making the same fundamental misunderstandings about how our democracy works.
Calls to suspend the April 1 increase at best ignore the real causes of the affordability crisis, and at worst seek to win Canadians’ support via false solutions.
B.C. Premier David Eby's loyalty to the carbon tax has landed him at the centre of a political maelstrom on carbon pricing, which the BC Green Party calls a distraction from the big-picture solutions needed for climate change.