B.C. scrapping provincial carbon tax after Carney kills it federally

CBC News

· Posted: Mar 14, 2025 4:51 PM EDT | Last Updated: 8 minutes ago

B.C. Premier David Eby says his authorities is drafting authorities to scrap the province's user c taxation pursuing a committedness from Prime Minister Mark Carney to bash the same.

Eby made the comments Friday day astatine a municipality hallway successful Surrey to sermon the menace of tariffs from the United States.

"This is the archetypal clip we've shared this, is that British Columbia volition beryllium introducing a instrumentality earlier April 1 that ensures that British Columbians don't person to wage that summation connected April 1," helium said, referring to the scheduled summation of $15/tonne that is required by national legislation.

Following that, helium said, his enactment would beryllium moving to scrap the taxation "altogether."

Eby's announcement came conscionable moments earlier Mark Carney, successful his archetypal enactment arsenic the caller premier curate of Canada, gave an order-in-council to region the national c tax.