While concerns over climate change prompted the Trudeau government to introduce its signature carbon tax in 2019, newly minted Prime Minister Mark Carney cut the unpopular consumer carbon tax rate to zero on Friday. The decision effectively ended one of the Liberal party’s most unpopular policies. But as David Akin reports, big industrial polluters will still have to pay.
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