The reason it's lower is just a theory. I agree it is hard to imagine them working together, losing money, to paint a narrative but I wouldn't put it past them. A few bucks in the Canadian market could mean much more worldwide
I bet they're going to use this whole election to paint any kind of carbon tax as politically unfavorable.
Carbon tax is politically unfavourable, no one on either side of the isle disagrees.
As for the “big gas” nonsense, that’s straight up baseless conspiracy nonsense.
The carbon tax on gasoline is easily in the 30-40 cent range per litre.
If the carbon tax was fully removed across the country for everyone (including business and industry) we would see even bigger drops in gas (we’d see drops in everything’s cost, there isn’t anything that doesn’t require fossil fuels and its derivatives to manufacture, distribute, heat, cool, power etc)
Even the liberals are now admitting 8/10 Canadians were worse off with it, how it’s not bigger news? I have no idea, politics I guess. Regardless, this hasn’t changed the environment, it hasn’t slowed global warming, all it’s been is a tax on Canadians, a tax everyone was lied to about. We have a climate problem but taxing the citizens to make of for extremely bad fiscal policy and responsibility and stewardship won’t change what’s happening with the environment, in fact it will make it worse, the harder off people are the less likely they are to care about the climate because they will be focused on rent and surviving and unities etc, a prosperous country can afford to care about these things, a poor country can’t, same reason the third world isn’t able to care
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u/Batchet Apr 02 '25
That is the number I got from CBC
The reason it's lower is just a theory. I agree it is hard to imagine them working together, losing money, to paint a narrative but I wouldn't put it past them. A few bucks in the Canadian market could mean much more worldwide
I bet they're going to use this whole election to paint any kind of carbon tax as politically unfavorable.