Yes, I agree. In the perfect textbook world, we teach our first-year students that, yes, there's a case for a carbon tax. If you want to reduce something, you make it costlier or you add a tax. It's called a Pigouvian tax. We're far from the textbook world. We don't even know that we've set the tax rate correctly to begin with. There are knock-on effects in other sectors. It is also very poorly timed, given that the cost of living is already skyrocketing. Lastly, of course, the problem is global. We can't solve the problem here in Canada.
On April 9th, 2024. See this statement in context.