Carney’s move to kill carbon price now official but debate over it not dead

Everything you need to know about gas prices & the CCR now the consumer carbon tax is dead

If you've been following the carbon tax news and wondering what it means for gas prices or that sweet carbon rebate cheque, here's where things stand — and how it's all about to hit your wallet. Just hours after being sworn in as Canada's 24th prime minister on Friday, Mark Carney made his first official move, and it was a big one: scrapping the consumer carbon tax.The federal carbon pricing scheme was first introduced by former prime minister J…

Today's letters: Shouldn't Mark Carney have kept the carbon tax?

Wednesday, March 19: The prime minister may have hurt a huge number of people who benefited from the rebate part of the plan, a reader says.

Scrapping consumer carbon tax unlikely to have impact on food prices, expert says

After being sworn in on Friday, Prime Minister Mark Carney signed a prime ministerial directive instructing that the fuel charge be removed effective April 1. It's a move Carney says would make a difference to Canadians who are struggling to make ends meet currently. But some experts say it wont translate to any savings at the grocery store.

What We Know So Far About Carney’s Net-Zero Emissions Plans for Canada

News Analysis While Prime Minister Mark Carney has so far been preoccupied with the response to U.S. tariffs and differentiating himself from the previous Liberal prime minister, he is expected to also focus substantially on net-zero emissions policies, as he has indicated on the campaign trail and given his past high-level roles on the file. Carney’s first act as prime minister was to bring the carbon tax rate for consumers, small businesses, a…

If Canada Won’t Tax Gas to Cut Emissions, Who Will?

Canada’s carbon tax was supposed to be different. Unlike the proposed cap-and-trade scheme in the United States or the European Union’s carbon trading system, Canada’s program was not a kitty for green energy subsidies. The tax would be split into two pieces: a charge on large industrial emitters, largely raised through provincial systems where more intensive emitters buy credits from those that emit less, and a tax on consumers that took the fo…

Let’s make Canada a great resource-exporting nation again

Prime Minister Mark Carney says a consumer carbon tax is a bad idea. Three out of four Canadians now support the construction of new pipelines