B.C. Premier David Eby opened the door on Thursday to scrapping the province's consumer carbon tax. A UBC political scientist says the move risks being viewed as a flip-flop.
“It’s a big pivot for British Columbia, for the province which led in establishing carbon pricing in Canada back in 2008,” Kathryn Harrison, a professor of political science at the University of British Columbia said.
“Five years ago, climate was one of the top issues on voters’ minds, and now polling is showing it’s kind of a distant fifth,” she said.
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