By Aaron Wudrick, Taxpayer.com, October 3, 2016
Federal government plans to impose carbon taxes on unwilling provinces
The Canadian Taxpayers Federation (CTF) today slammed Prime Minister Trudeau’s pledge to impose a rising national ‘floor price’ which could result in the average Canadian family paying $2,569 per year in new taxes by 2022.
“Prime Minister Trudeau has disingenuously implied that provinces have a ‘choice’ with respect to carbon pricing,” said CTF Federal Director Aaron Wudrick. “But there is no choice at all: provinces must impose a new tax on their own people, or Ottawa will do it for them – something the Premiers of Saskatchewan, Nova Scotia and Yukon have explicitly opposed.”
