Axing the Tax: The Rise and Fall of Canada's Carbon Tax

We were told the carbon tax was good for us. We were told carbon taxes were inevitable.

Today, support for the carbon tax is crumbling, even though the fight isn’t over.

But as recently as the 2021 election, every major federal party in Canada campaigned in support of the carbon tax, a charge on fossil fuels based on the amount of greenhouses gases produced. Since then, strategic blunders by Justin Trudeau’s Liberals and attacks from Pierre Poilievre’s Conservatives have undermined the conse...