Kenney won the April election on a promise to kill the
tax, saying it hasn’t helped reduce greenhouse gas emissions and took
money out of the pockets of working families.
tax, saying it hasn’t helped reduce greenhouse gas emissions and took
money out of the pockets of working families.
Kenney’s government
will continue with a tax on large industrial greenhouse gas emitters,
and has promised to challenge the constitutionality of the federal
carbon tax in court if Ottawa imposes it.
Ending the tax opens the
door to Ottawa imposing its tax, as it has done with four other
provinces that wouldn’t bring in their own carbon pricing: Ontario, New
Brunswick, Manitoba and Saskatchewan.