Carbon tax

SUZUKI – Carbon pricing offers climate and affordability benefits

November 22, 2023 // 0 Comments

FACED WITH RISING RENT payments, housing prices, interest rates and fuel costs, many people have little time for more complex but still pressing issues like climate change. [Continue]

PETERS – How did the carbon tax become such a controversial policy?

November 4, 2023 // 2 Comments

IT’S BIZARRE to see how much of a political football the carbon tax has become when its introduction 15 years ago was relatively free of drama. B.C. was the first [Continue]

PETERS – B.C. carbon tax revenue should go to preventing disasters

May 6, 2023 // 0 Comments

A LOT OF PEOPLE IN THE B.C. INTERIOR get really upset at Justin Trudeau for the carbon tax — even though he had nothing to do with the one we pay. Our carbon tax was first [Continue]

FORSETH – Who will pay for greenhouse carbon tax exemption? We will

April 2, 2023 // 6 Comments

A RISE IN THE CARBON TAX was no April Fools joke for the people of BC. Carbon taxes imposed by the Provincial and Federal governments will go from a current rate of $50 per [Continue]

FORSETH – Horgan gov’t in no hurry to remind us of carbon tax increase

December 31, 2021 // 2 Comments

IT SEEMS INEVITABLE that this government will continue, over and over again, to give me fodder to chastise them – although in this case I, along with nearly all British [Continue]

NATIONAL PULSE – O’Toole’s carbon gamble draws mixed political reviews

May 4, 2021 // 0 Comments

By ANGUS REID INSTITUTE Conservative Party leader Erin O’Toole’s mid-April announcement of a new carbon pricing plan surprised many Canadians, including, reportedly, some [Continue]