The federal tax is $20 a tonne for this year and is set to increase by $10 annually until it reaches $50 a tonne in April 2022. People in Manitoba, Ontario, Saskatchewan and New Brunswick will be paying more for gasoline on Monday when the federal government's carbon tax begins. An Ontario court is set to hear the government’s constitutional challenge of the carbon tax in April. “The proposed plan does not consider ... the multiplier effects of these taxes on the people we buy things from.” Beverly Gilbert, a Calgary tax adviser, says the carbon tax will affect Canada’s competitiveness. “The Liberal carbon tax is not an environmental plan,” Scheer said.

Source: thestar March 31, 2019 14:26 UTC