The document, titled the Climate and Green Plan Town Hall Toolkit, also says farmers would be exempt from the tax, and at $25 per tonne, it would raise $250 million annually. Sustainable Development Minister Rochelle Squires said the toolkit is only a draft document, and no final decision has been made on what the carbon tax will end up being. “The document in question is an internal draft document that I will not comment on,” Squires said in a written statement. Ottawa wants the provinces to start with a $10 per tonne tax next year that would ramp up to $50 a tonne by 2022. The draft Manitoba document examines a “flat” $25 per tonne tax through to 2022.

Source: National Post September 02, 2017 17:32 UTC