February 2013

In British Columbia, the right-of-center Liberal Party decided to essentially freeze the carbon tax at its current rate of $30/ton CO2. (They are going to continue an exemption for greenhouses and seek a new exemption for farm diesel.) See pp58-63 of this budget document for details. Also very much worth a read is “A Tale of Two Taxes: The Fate of Environmental Tax Reform in Canada” by UBC professor Kathryn Harrison. You can read the abstract from the link above, email me if you’re interested in seeing the whole article, which is long but worth it. more