Future of the carbon tax

The world’s leading climatologists agree that, unless there is an extremely larger effort to cut emissions, it will be next to impossible to do so sufficiently in the following few years in order to not reach 450ppm and go beyond.

The federal Conservatives under Pierre Poilievre have mounted an attack on the program, but there may still be hope that Canada can revisit carbon pricing after the damage the Poilievre Conservatives have made to it are forgotten. After all, 46 countries, including China, have some form of carbon pricing, writes Gary Storey. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY GARY STOREY

March 10, 2025

The question of what is the future of the carbon tax—I prefer to say carbon pricing—needs to be considered in the context of what is the future of planet Earth.

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