Premier Scott Moe calls the newly announced scaled back carbon price guidelines for some of the country’s heavy energy users a watered down version of the original tax.
On social media, the Premier states that the previous carbon tax does nothing for the environment, reduces jobs and takes money from families and this new revision does the same.
He would prefer the federal government give provinces the freedom to develop their own climate change policies, without a carbon tax.
Moe adds that after 2 years of the feds saying a carbon tax wouldn’t affect competitiveness, it has now admitted that it would, with the new scaled back tax.
Premier Says Scaled Back Carbon Tax Is Still A Tax
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The Candian government wants the country’s banks to identify, in customers’ bank statements when they receive the carbon rebate, that it is labelled as such.
Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault says the lack of a clear identifier is contributing to confusion about carbon price rebates, so he is going to change the law if he has to in order to force the big banks to identify the carbon rebate by name when doing direct deposits.
The first rebate deposits in 2022 were labelled very generically, which meant recipients had no idea why they were getting the money.
T-D and B-MO have adopted the government’s requested “CdaCarbonRebate” entry, R-B-C and Scotiabank say they couldn’t make the change in time for the rollout, and C-I-B-C is still calling it “Deposit Canada.”