Between politicians who fog the truth and the ones just in a fog, one Canadian economist says the carbon tax debate is clouding Alberta's provincial election and drifting into an upcoming federal campaign.
Published Friday, April 12, 2019 4:32AM EDT
"We have been sorry to see that there's a bunch of stuff out there that is either misunderstanding or poorly explained. There are a bunch of myths out there.""If you look at B.C., if you look at California, if you look at the U.K, if you look at Quebec, these policies do work. What they don't do is work overnight."
The commission's report finds that far from hurting families, 70 per cent of Canadian households will receive more in carbon tax rebates than they pay. You could, concedes Ragan. But that would cost the economy more. Besides, he said, bringing in carbon taxes gives governments an opportunity to cut other levies such as income tax.
In court hearings on Saskatchewan's anti-tax constitutional challenge, Olszynski said, judges asked if allowing Ottawa to regulate greenhouse gases as a matter of "national concern" would impede provincial efforts to do the same.
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