While the Trudeau government is willing to embrace the small fiction that is the “grocery rebate,” it is more reluctant to engage Canadians on the bigger truth about that other rebate: the federal payment to offset the carbon price, or “carbon tax” as Conservatives call it.
While the Trudeau government is willing to embrace the small fiction that is the “grocery rebate,” it is more reluctant to engage Canadians on the bigger truth about that other rebate: the federal payment to offset the carbon price, or “carbon tax” as Conservatives call it.
Dale Beugin is executive vice-president at the Canadian Climate Institute. He is an expert in environmental policy and economics. Beugin has worked as executive director and research director of Canada’s Ecofiscal Commission, as an independent consultant providing analysis and advice to governments and organizations across Canada and internationally, and as policy advisor with
A break on pump prices sounds great, but you're paying for it. In the wake of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the long-standing dispute over how governments should be spending our tax dollars in the oil and gas sector has become more complicated and, if possible, more heated.
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