Taxpayers group and federal Conservative leader urging premier to oppose increase
The B.C. director of the Canadian Taxpayers Federation was outside Premier David Eby’s Vancouver constituency office on Thursday morning , urging him to cancel the upcoming carbon tax hike.
On Thursday, Conservative Party leader Pierre Poilievre attempted to pass a non-confidence motion against Prime Minister Justin Trudeau over the tax. It was voted down. On regular gas, the tax will rise from 14.31 to 17.61 cents per litre. For a 40-litre tank, this will amount to about $7 in taxes to fill up, an additional $1.30 over what it costs now. Binda argued the price is actually quite a bit higher if you add up all fuel-related taxes, such as excise and transit.
The point, University of British Columbia political science professor Kathryn Harrison said, is to financially incentivize people to reduce their emissions. Regardless of how much they consume, people get the same rebates back. So, if someone reduced their gas use and spent less on the tax, they would end up with more money in their pocket at the end of the year than someone who didn’t change their habits.
Giroux’s report did not include the projected costs of climate change, which the carbon tax aims to offset. Binda said the Canadian Taxpayers Federation also hasn’t done any projections of what climate change will cost taxpayers in the future. A more recent 2022 study, however, determined that while the tax has reduced transportation emissions, it is too soon to say whether it’s had a statistically significant reduction on emissions overall. That author, University of Victoria economics professor Felix Pretis, said the tax would have to be far higher and combined with other measures to have a real impact.
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