Trudeau promises rebates as Ottawa moves to levy carbon tax on provinces outside the climate plan

By John Paul Tasker, CBC News, October 23, 2018

The federal Liberal government will slap a carbon tax on fuels in provinces and territories with no adequate emissions pricing plans of their own — but will send annual rebates to Canadian families to offset most of the added costs of this climate-change fighting initiative.

Extreme weather events like floods, wildfires, storms and droughts offer proof that Canada is already grappling with the effects of climate change — and these increasingly frequent events demand action from Ottawa in the form of a national price on carbon, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Tuesday in Toronto.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/tasker-carbon-tax-plan-trudeau-1.4874258

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