|Seen as an increase in their climate ambitions, Canada to impose a national carbon tax. Photo credit: Reuters / Chris Wattie.|
Canada’s Environment Minister, Catherine McKenna, announced the initiative, which will be put in place by October
|Seen as an increase in their climate ambitions, Canada to impose a national carbon tax. Photo credit: Reuters / Chris Wattie.|
Canada’s Environment Minister, Catherine McKenna, announced the initiative, which will be put in place by October.
This is just the latest climate-friendly move by Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau’s Liberal government since he was elected last year. Canada is starting to move away from its anti-climate agenda occupied by previous Prime Minister, Stephen Harper. This prompts further speculation,whether Canada would be about to ratify the Paris Agreement.
Four out of Canada’s ten provinces, British Columbia, Ontario, Alberta and Quebec already have carbon tax schemes in place. But Catherine McKenna has so far provided little detail on how the national carbon scheme would work. She did, however, hint, that the scheme would center around regional schemes which could differ and then later move towards a national scheme. McKenna said that the government requires some uniformity in emissions reductions, but that provinces can have different regulation methods.
But many regional governments have already voiced opposition to a national carbon pric