Carney kills consumer carbon tax in first move as new prime minister

Darren Major · CBC News

· Posted: Mar 14, 2025 4:37 PM EDT | Last Updated: 1 infinitesimal ago

Prime Minister Mark Carney wasted small clip successful removing a potent constituent of onslaught for the Conservatives successful caller years: the user c tax.

After being sworn successful connected Friday, Carney's furniture ended the taxation done what's known as an order-in-council.

Former premier curate Justin Trudeau archetypal implemented the c pricing strategy successful 2019.

But arsenic Canadians experienced precocious ostentation successful the years following, Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre's pledge to "axe the tax" gained traction among voters.

Carney had antecedently supported a c pricing scheme, but said during his bid for the Liberal enactment that the existent argumentation had go "too divisive" and promised to termination the policy.

It was designed arsenic a fiscal inducement for radical and businesses to alteration their behaviour to pain little fossil substance and modulation to greener forms of energy, frankincense helping Canada little its emissions.

To assistance offset costs, rebates were offered to residents successful provinces wherever the argumentation applied. 

In 2023, the Liberal authorities enactment a three-year intermission connected the c taxation for location heating oil.

An concern c taxation connected ample emitters remains successful place.