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. Ontario Premier Doug Ford has described the carbon levy as a “job-killing” tax that will increase prices on everything. 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 U.S. does not have any kind of carbon levy or carbon charge so it makes it more difficult to compete internationally,” she said.

Source: National Post March 31, 2019 15:50 UTC