Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault is acknowledging the federal carbon tax has become an unpopular policy, and that it could potentially be replaced with a different “environmental measure.”
“If we remove [the carbon tax], we not only need to replace an environmental measure with another one that would be equivalent, but we also need to find a way to continue supporting Canadians in those times of challenges with affordability and cost-of-living issues,” Guilbeault told reporters on Jan. 21 in Montebello, Que.
If the government decides not to move ahead with the carbon tax, one “obvious answer” instead would be to “tighten” the industrial carbon pricing system, Guilbeault said. This system provides three times the emissions reductions of the consumer carbon tax, he added….