Absolutely. The numbers are correct, but the interpretation of those numbers would need to be corrected.
The U.S. numbers are coming from the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, and the data in Canada comes from Statistics Canada. It would be a little premature to say that the carbon tax is solely responsible for the difference between the two nations.
What we're speculating is that perhaps the carbon tax could be a factor, but we don't know for sure to what extent. That would need to be clarified.