As Pierre Poilievre prepares to mark today’s carbon tax hike with an Axe the Tax rally in Nanaimo, an energy think tank says the tax will ultimately make most British Columbians better off.
“They could choose to ignore it and we could all just get on with doing our part to combat climate change,” he said. “So part of it is a choice to make it a political fight. But also the ‘Axe The Tax’ side of this fight has an easier story to tell.” The carbon tax is not the “true culprit of why things have gotten so expensive in this country and in this province,” Melanson said in echoing hundreds of economists from university departments across the country. They recently issued a letter stating global factors such COVID-19 and international conflicts have “mainly” contributed to inflation, not carbon taxes.
“What we needed is something like a national education campaign to help people understand it,” he said. “I think it could have raised better awareness of a lot of the climate measures they have been doing.”Melanson added that governments should have done launched such an information campaign years ago.However, the declining popularity of the carbon tax also may not be just about a failure to communicate.
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