Who would have thought?  Go Habs!

...though it's designed to be revenue neutral and won't raise funds for clean energy like Quebec's carbon tax.

I think being "revenue neutral" is a great move. It sends a message that carbon taxes can play the role of ordinary taxes, except that they discourage greenhouse gases, not profits.

That being said, there it would be a bit of stretch to say the proposed carbon tax is revenue neutral.

This is NOT a carbon tax, but it gives the impression that it is one.  People are going to fill up their tanks thinking that the new tax is offsetting their emissions, when it's actually going straight back to them in tax credits (minus administrative costs, of course).

This is a well-intended but poorly-implemented pigovian tax, and its only result will be to increase the cost of products on store shelves everywhere--because commercial truckers, who will be hardest hit, will pass the cost on to their customers.

The Citizens whom pay this tax, do not wish to subsidize existing fossil fuel technologies.

The only ethical use of this money is as Quebec does, othewise its just theft.
dennis baker
penticton BC