B.C. Premier David Eby says his government is working on legislation that will eliminate the provincial consumer carbon tax, after Prime Minister Mark Carney announced that he’s getting rid of the federal consumer carbon tax.
B.C. first introduced the provincial consumer carbon tax in 2008. The federal carbon tax was introduced in 2019 for provinces that did not already have one in place.
“Work is underway. We are writing the law to get rid of the carbon tax in British Columbia,” Eby said during a town hall meeting in Surrey on March 14.
“As soon as the federal government announces it we will introduce and pass that law in British Columbia to get rid of the carbon tax entirely.”…