Environment Minister Jonathan Wilkinson says the Liberals will not raise the carbon tax – but this time they really, really mean it..Blacklock’s Reporter notes cabinet made a similar pre-election promise in 2019 before raising the tax 240%..“No, we do not intend to accelerate the price on pollution,” Wilkinson told reporters on Thursday..“There is a price schedule out there for the very specific reason of providing certainty and that’s what we’ve done. We do not intend to change the trajectory.”.Parliament in 2018 passed an act capping the carbon tax at $50 per tonne by 2022, the equivalent of 12¢ per litre of gasoline. Cabinet at the time promised the rate would never increase..“The price will not go up,” then-Environment Minister Catherine McKenna told reporters June 13, 2019..“The plan is not to increase the price post-2022. We are doing exactly what we said we’d do.”.“There is no secret agenda. Any decision to move up would be in consultation with the provinces,” McKenna said on August 26, 2019.. Liberals promise not to raise carbon tax – againCatherine McKenna (source: CBC) .“Are you committing to not going over $50 per tonne?” asked a reporter..“That’s all we have,” replied McKenna..Liberal MP Sean Fraser (Central Nova, N.S.), parliamentary secretary for finance, told reporters July 9, 2019 the tax would not increase..“This is not some sort of election trickery,” said Fraser..Sen. Marc Gold (Que.), cabinet’s representative in the Senate, repeated the pledge on February 19, 2020..“The government, I’ve been advised, remains committed to the pricing plan that was legislated in the 2018 Greenhouse Gas Pollution Pricing Act where the price per tonne of excess carbon dioxide emissions began at ten dollars and increases by $10 to a maximum fifty dollars per tonne from the year 2022 onwards,” said Gold..But last December 11, after Parliament adjourned for Christmas, cabinet said it would raise the tax 240% to $170 per tonne..“I’m excited. We will win the race against climate change,” McKenna said at the time..The new higher charge is the equivalent of a total 27 cents more per litre of propane, 34 cents per cubic metre of natural gas, 40 cents more per litre of gasoline, 44 cents for aviation fuel and an extra 47 cents per litre for diesel..“Yes, there is an increase in the price. It’s a serious one, and this price will increase regularly until we reach our targets,” said Gold..Dave Naylor is the News Editor of the Western Standard.,dnaylor@westernstandardonline.com,.Twitter.com/nobby7694
Environment Minister Jonathan Wilkinson says the Liberals will not raise the carbon tax – but this time they really, really mean it..Blacklock’s Reporter notes cabinet made a similar pre-election promise in 2019 before raising the tax 240%..“No, we do not intend to accelerate the price on pollution,” Wilkinson told reporters on Thursday..“There is a price schedule out there for the very specific reason of providing certainty and that’s what we’ve done. We do not intend to change the trajectory.”.Parliament in 2018 passed an act capping the carbon tax at $50 per tonne by 2022, the equivalent of 12¢ per litre of gasoline. Cabinet at the time promised the rate would never increase..“The price will not go up,” then-Environment Minister Catherine McKenna told reporters June 13, 2019..“The plan is not to increase the price post-2022. We are doing exactly what we said we’d do.”.“There is no secret agenda. Any decision to move up would be in consultation with the provinces,” McKenna said on August 26, 2019.. Liberals promise not to raise carbon tax – againCatherine McKenna (source: CBC) .“Are you committing to not going over $50 per tonne?” asked a reporter..“That’s all we have,” replied McKenna..Liberal MP Sean Fraser (Central Nova, N.S.), parliamentary secretary for finance, told reporters July 9, 2019 the tax would not increase..“This is not some sort of election trickery,” said Fraser..Sen. Marc Gold (Que.), cabinet’s representative in the Senate, repeated the pledge on February 19, 2020..“The government, I’ve been advised, remains committed to the pricing plan that was legislated in the 2018 Greenhouse Gas Pollution Pricing Act where the price per tonne of excess carbon dioxide emissions began at ten dollars and increases by $10 to a maximum fifty dollars per tonne from the year 2022 onwards,” said Gold..But last December 11, after Parliament adjourned for Christmas, cabinet said it would raise the tax 240% to $170 per tonne..“I’m excited. We will win the race against climate change,” McKenna said at the time..The new higher charge is the equivalent of a total 27 cents more per litre of propane, 34 cents per cubic metre of natural gas, 40 cents more per litre of gasoline, 44 cents for aviation fuel and an extra 47 cents per litre for diesel..“Yes, there is an increase in the price. It’s a serious one, and this price will increase regularly until we reach our targets,” said Gold..Dave Naylor is the News Editor of the Western Standard.,dnaylor@westernstandardonline.com,.Twitter.com/nobby7694
