It should also be noted that the federal carbon tax is a tax-and-rebate scheme. Ie you get taxed on the carbon and the revenues get refunded to the consumers. I

It should also be noted that the federal carbon tax is a tax-and-rebate scheme. Ie you get taxed on the carbon and the revenues get refunded to the consumers. If you make a lower-carbon choice, you keep your money. If you don't, nothing really changed. It's also slightly progressive, since lower-income folks will actually come out ahead by a bit without making any changes. Warning: strong political opinions below. What we're seeing is really a replay of the ACA reaction in the US. Obamacare was a rejigged Romneycare, which was a rejigged Heritage Foundation plan which was a reaction to the Clinton's healthcare plans. It was a conservative, market-friendly approach to solving an issue... until it was actually implemented. Then we found out it was just a talking point meant that was never meant to be acted upon, a mere cover that allowed conservatives to pretend they were interested solving an issue. Likewise, the tax-and-rebate scheme is basically most conservative and market-friendly approach to tackling climate change that actually produces results. But now that it's actually been implemented, the Ford/Kenney/potential-Scheer governments are reacting by repealing it and replacing it with nothing that produces results. Because they don't have the guts to say simply "No, we don't believe in this and we're not going to do anything about it"