Prime Minister Mark Carney wasted little time in removing a potent point of attack for the Conservatives in recent years: the consumer carbon tax.

Following the move of new Prime Minister Mark Carney, B.C. Premier David Eby announced today the provincial carbon tax will be killed.

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B.C. Premier David Eby says his government is drafting legislation to scrap the province's consumer carbon tax following a promise from Prime Minister Mark Carney to do the same.

There will be no hike in provincial carbon taxes April 1, says Premier David Eby, who today announced the carbon tax is being scrapped, in line with the elimination of a federal carbon taxes.

B.C. Premier David Eby said his government is preparing legislation to scrap the province’s consumer carbon tax after Prime Minister Mark Carney reduced the federal version of the tax to zero on Friday as his first act in office.

Carney says people who have been getting a rebate on the carbon price will get one final payment for the next quarter in April.

Prime Minister-designate Mark Carney, a Liberal who will replace Justin Trudeau on Friday, has said he plans to abolish a carbon pricing system that many residents have paid since 2019 on fossil fuel products, including gasoline, diesel and natural gas.

The Liberal government in Canada has ended the consumer carbon price immediately. This decision was made official during Prime Minister Mark Carney’s first cabinet meeting on Friday afternoon. Carney stated that people who have been getting a rebate on the carbon price will get one final payment for the next quarter in April.