( Christopher Katsarov / THE CANADIAN PRESS )The threat isn’t the federal carbon tax that took effect on Monday, which adds 4.4 cents to the price of a litre of gasoline. Somehow our economy has managed to cope just fine with this extreme volatility; the carbon tax effect is close to a mere blip beside that. Article Continued BelowNo, the real threat to our long-term future is precisely what the carbon tax is designed to head off — climate change. Economists of all political stripes agree that a carbon tax is the most effective way to cut back on greenhouse gas emissions. And in the meantime it plans to spend millions of taxpayer dollars on an advertising blitz attacking the federal plan.

Source: thestar April 01, 2019 21:11 UTC