The way that the government is legislating the carbon tax is outside of our mandate. We're an apolitical organization, but we encourage any action that can lower carbon in the future and in the present. There's been a lot of evidence that shows that carbon taxes do work.
I'm from the Atlantic provinces—I'm from New Brunswick—and I know that fuel costs there were making things difficult for people, but that's much more difficult in the north. There absolutely does need to be a carve-out in the Arctic for fuel. Almost every community in the north is reliant on diesel fuel to power their power plants. It's messy and it's inefficient, but it's the infrastructure that's there right now.
Life is already so expensive. You can pay $14 for a head of lettuce in some of these communities, if you can even get it. The cost of the carbon tax should not be passed on to people in the north, who are already experiencing the worst of climate change anyway.
In terms of the carbon tax as a whole, it's likely a positive initiative because work needs to be done to mitigate climate change, but yes, there absolutely needs to be a carve-out. Angus is from Tuktoyaktuk, so he can speak more to the realities on the ground there.