B.C. Conservative leader John Rustad says Eby's 'reversal' on the tax is a 'desperate attempt to salvage his sinking political ship.'
VANCOUVER — British Columbia Premier David Eby says his government will end the provincial carbon tax on consumers and shift the onus to "big polluters" if the federal government removes a legal requirement to keep the tax in place.
He says the federal government's approach to the carbon tax has "badly damaged" what was a political consensus on the issue in the province. In 2008, B.C. became the first Canadian jurisdiction to introduce a carbon tax under the previous BC Liberal government.
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