Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau (here on November 1 during the 20th Ontario Economic Summit in Toronto) announced at the end of October the suspension of the carbon tax on heating oil for three years. REUTERS/Jessica Lee
DECRYPTION – The Trudeau government has taken an electoral measure in a country dependent on the oil industry.
“The carbon tax is dead“. The recent title of National Post does not do nuance. But it testifies to the wave of reactions provoked by the decision of the Canadian Prime Minister. Justin Trudeau announced the suspension of the carbon tax on heating oil for three years, a first step towards burying it, according to observers. The decision of the head of the Liberal government provoked the anger of several provincial ministers, whose residents heat with natural gas and not oil and who, for their part, will not be exempt from a tax calibrated at $65 per tonne of emissions .
“The federal government has created two cles of taxpayers by providing a suspension for oil heating. Such an exemption only really benefits one part of the country and excludes Saskatchewan», declared the premier of this western province, Scott Moe. The provincial official threatens to no longer collect the carbon tax and no longer pay it back…
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