In Canada, the climate change debate has focused on Ottawa’s attempts to impose carbon taxes. “The carbon tax is, from an economic efficiency perspective, the perfect policy,” he writes, “which is why a lot of people, especially economists, keep saying we must price carbon emissions. The problem with these kinds of myths, he writes, is that they foster the view that market forces alone can solve the climate change crisis. That was the election fought just after Liberal Premier Gordon Campbell had brought in a revenue-neutral carbon tax. election campaign served as a brutal reminder of the political difficulty in selling any kind of carbon tax, no matter how virtuous, to voters.

Source: thestar December 02, 2019 10:52 UTC