I think my Ecofiscal Commission colleague highlighted that in his opening, but the evidence suggests that B.C.'s emissions would be 5% to 15% higher than they are, had it not been for the imposition of the carbon tax and the associated revenue recycling policy. B.C. has benefited from economic growth partly because of its low tax environment. Some of that has offset the aggregate emissions gains that would have come from simply imposing a carbon tax and doing nothing with the dollars, but that's a good thing; that's what we want; we want economic growth, but the emissions are lower than they otherwise would have been by a significant margin.
On May 7th, 2018. See this statement in context.