The minister refused to answer the cost of the carbon tax to the average Canadian household.
Mr. Rochon, thank you for being here today. You received a memo on October 20, 2015, which provided some costing for various carbon tax options. The memo reads:
This memo focuses on the potential impact of a carbon price on households' consumption expenditures across the income distribution. Key findings are....
It's blacked out in the version that I received. Clearly, the blacked-out area is a table that shows how much people would pay in taxes depending on their incomes.
How much would a family that earns, say, $40,000 a year pay under a new carbon tax?