The Winnipeg Chamber of Commerce, the Canadian Taxpayer Federation, the Manitoba Trucking Association and the Manitoba Lodges and Outfitters Associations all criticized the provincial carbon tax scheme. 'Absolute nonsense'Todd MacKay, Prairie director of the Canadian Taxpayer Federation, called the budget as a whole "bad" and railed against the Tory government carbon tax. "This is the proposition that the government is putting to Manitobans right now: 'give us a whole bunch of your money right now in a carbon tax. Meanwhile Mary Agnes Welch, senior researcher for Probe Research, said it's really too soon to say what will happen once the carbon tax is implemented. "When you add up the math and you're figuring out where the carbon tax [revenue] goes, it's quite unclear," she said.

Source: CBC News March 13, 2018 03:31 UTC