{"id":129,"date":"2024-04-05T15:47:21","date_gmt":"2024-04-05T19:47:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/project.journalism.torontomu.ca\/jn8201w2024\/?p=129"},"modified":"2024-04-13T09:23:22","modified_gmt":"2024-04-13T13:23:22","slug":"federal-carbon-tax-continues-to-divide-canadians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/project.journalism.torontomu.ca\/jn8201w2024\/2024\/04\/05\/federal-carbon-tax-continues-to-divide-canadians\/","title":{"rendered":"Federal Carbon Tax Continues to Divide Canadians"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The federal carbon tax increase effective April 1 has been the source of much debate between its defenders and opponents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;This carbon tax has to go or in a year and a half, the prime minister is going,\u201d said Ontario Premier Doug Ford at a news conference in East Gwillimbury, Ont., on Monday. \u201cIt&#8217;s as simple as that,&nbsp;he will be going, I&#8217;ll guarantee you.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The federal government\u2019s increase, from $65 per tonne to $80, will see drivers pay an additional 3.3 cents per litre at the pump. Since the Canadian government introduced the levy in 2019, the carbon tax has added 17.6 cents to the cost of a litre of gasoline.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"482\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/project.journalism.torontomu.ca\/jn8201w2024\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/197\/2024\/04\/Canadas-Carbon-Tax-Explained-by-Soraya-El-Houni-1-482x1024.png\" alt=\"Canada's carbon tax and rebate figures.\" class=\"wp-image-133\" style=\"width:414px;height:auto\" title=\"Canada's Carbon Tax &amp; Rebate Explained\" srcset=\"https:\/\/project.journalism.torontomu.ca\/jn8201w2024\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/197\/2024\/04\/Canadas-Carbon-Tax-Explained-by-Soraya-El-Houni-1-482x1024.png 482w, https:\/\/project.journalism.torontomu.ca\/jn8201w2024\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/197\/2024\/04\/Canadas-Carbon-Tax-Explained-by-Soraya-El-Houni-1-141x300.png 141w, https:\/\/project.journalism.torontomu.ca\/jn8201w2024\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/197\/2024\/04\/Canadas-Carbon-Tax-Explained-by-Soraya-El-Houni-1-768x1631.png 768w, https:\/\/project.journalism.torontomu.ca\/jn8201w2024\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/197\/2024\/04\/Canadas-Carbon-Tax-Explained-by-Soraya-El-Houni-1-723x1536.png 723w, https:\/\/project.journalism.torontomu.ca\/jn8201w2024\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/197\/2024\/04\/Canadas-Carbon-Tax-Explained-by-Soraya-El-Houni-1.png 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 482px) 100vw, 482px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Canada&#8217;s carbon tax and carbon rebate figures as of April 2024. <em>Infographic by Soraya El-Houni.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:30px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Provincial leaders such as Newfoundland and Labrador Premier Andrew Furey had asked the federal government to put a pause on the increase. In a letter to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FureyAndrew\/status\/1767579225928728963?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1767579225928728963%7Ctwgr%5Eb3f449e57be835b6e5088b041a7135e77f7e7f68%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fglobalnews.ca%2Fnews%2F10354123%2Fcarbon-price-increase-newfoundland-wants-pause%2F\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">posted on X<\/a>, Furey says that the hike \u201cis causing understandable worry as people consider how they will manage the mounting financial strain.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed aligncenter is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I continue to stand up for Newfoundlanders and Labradorians against the federal carbon tax. <br><br>I am now asking Ottawa to pause its planned increase to the carbon tax, set for April 1st, as the high cost of living is enough of a burden on families. <br><br>The full letter is here: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/fMW9coybTE\">pic.twitter.com\/fMW9coybTE<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Andrew Furey (@FureyAndrew) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FureyAndrew\/status\/1767579225928728963?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 12, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:53px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Drew Spoelstra, president of the Ontario Federation of Agriculture, said that the tax takes money away from investing in clean farming technology.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;We support a clean environment but farmers just don&#8217;t have any alternatives,\u201d he said at a news conference Tuesday. \u201cWe have to use fuel and energy to grow the food that we all eat.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading has-medium-font-size\"><strong>Trudeau defends federal carbon tax<\/strong><\/h1>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:13px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>In an announcement made in Ottawa on Monday, Trudeau said that although the price on pollution is increasing, so is the Canadian Carbon Rebate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s money in people&#8217;s pockets while we continue stepping up in the fight against climate change,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;So all those premiers&nbsp;that are busy complaining about the price on pollution but not putting forward a concrete alternative that they think would be better for their communities are just playing politics.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The hike in the federal carbon tax will also mean an increase to rebate cheques. In Ontario, single-person households will receive $140 quarterly and a family of four will get $280 every three months.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>An analysis from the <a href=\"https:\/\/440megatonnes.ca\/insight\/industrial-carbon-pricing-systems-driver-emissions-reductions\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Canadian Climate Institute<\/a>, released in March, found that carbon pricing is projected to reduce emissions by as much as 50 per cent by 2030. The institute\u2019s report says industrial carbon pricing is projected to contribute \u201cbetween 23 and 39 per cent (or 53 to 90 megatonnes) of avoided emissions from all policies implemented to date.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:26px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Written by Saadeq Ahmed.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The federal carbon tax increase effective April 1 has been the source of much debate between its defenders and opponents.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":860,"featured_media":131,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46,3,1],"tags":[45,48,47,49],"class_list":["post-129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-government-of-canada","category-taxes","category-uncategorized","tag-canada","tag-carbon-rebate","tag-carbon-tax","tag-justin-trudeau"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/project.journalism.torontomu.ca\/jn8201w2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/project.journalism.torontomu.ca\/jn8201w2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/project.journalism.torontomu.ca\/jn8201w2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/project.journalism.torontomu.ca\/jn8201w2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/860"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/project.journalism.torontomu.ca\/jn8201w2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/project.journalism.torontomu.ca\/jn8201w2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/project.journalism.torontomu.ca\/jn8201w2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/project.journalism.torontomu.ca\/jn8201w2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/project.journalism.torontomu.ca\/jn8201w2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/project.journalism.torontomu.ca\/jn8201w2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}