Alberta Premier Danielle Smith is raising concerns about Prime Minister Mark Carney’s carbon reduction policies, saying that increasing the industrial carbon tax to offset the removal of the consumer carbon tax would have negative economic impacts on the province.
Smith made the comments on March 14, the same day Carney signed a directive to reduce the consumer carbon tax rate to zero, shortly after being sworn in as Canada’s prime minister.
During the Liberal leadership campaign, Carney proposed replacing the consumer carbon tax with incentives for greener choices, pledging to shift more of the cost onto “big polluters.” However, the specifics of his carbon reduction policies have yet to be fully outlined….