Alberta Tells Carney to Take His Carbon Tax Increase & Do Something Else With It

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Prime Minister Mark Carney is doubling down on taxing Alberta into poverty. He claims it’s necessary for trade with the UK, EU, and Asia. The real problem is that they want Alberta’s money to fund everything else.

On Monday, Danielle Smith froze Alberta’s industrial carbon price at the current rate of $95 per tonne of emissions. The province’s industrial carbon tax system, known as TIER (Technology Innovation and Emissions Reduction), covers this rate.

Carney wants to raise it to $170 by the decade’s end.

Premier Smith is using the Trump tariffs as the reason for the freeze.

She can freeze the tax. However, Tier must show they are meeting Federal guidelines. While she can do it for now, she won’t meet the benchmarks when it reaches $110 federally by 2026.

Smith said on Monday that she intends to halt further price hikes on industrial carbon emissions to provide certainty and economic relief for industries with higher greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, particularly oil and gas, electricity (most of the generation in Alberta comes from natural gas), petrochemicals, manufacturing, mining, cement, pulp and paper.

She has guts!

The unfairness is obvious. The carbon tax would hit Alberta’s fossil fuel-rich economy and industrial base far harder than other provinces that produce far less in comparison.

Alberta sends $20B a year to Ottawa, which the province never sees returned in benefits or respect.

Premier Smith will now talk with companies and gather data.


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Anonymous
Anonymous
23 days ago

Yup! Alberta may be the 51st State…

fdems
fdems
23 days ago

Swap Alberta for California.

Saltherring
Saltherring
23 days ago
Reply to  fdems

…or Minnesota, as it is on the US-Canadian border. Walz would, of course, have to go north along with Minnesota.

Peter B. Prange,
Peter B. Prange,
23 days ago
Reply to  Saltherring

Even crazy liberal Canada wouldn’t want loony Tim.
Remove the illegals and traitors from Minnesota instead of removing Minnesota from the Union.