How to get skeptical Canadians to support a carbon tax

Simply imposing the tax won’t cut it. Offering incentives, innovations, and transparency just might.

Environment Minister Catherine McKenna plans to impose a carbon tax on any province that refuses to meet federal standards to reduce greenhouse gases starting next year. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY ANDREW CADDELL

October 17, 2018

OTTAWA—It was an unseasonably warm few days in Ottawa last week. Coming on the heels of hurricanes in Florida, the tornadoes that devastated the National Capital Region a few weeks ago, wildfires in British Columbia, and an early snowfall in Calgary, the warnings of the Intergovernmental Panel for...

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