Yes, the bus, bike, and your feet are a very viable alternative that have been around for centuries, centuries, and eons.
You cut my quote off. Is there EV farm equipment/tractors? EV trucks for shipping? EV airplanes?
If there's not viable alternatives to those, you're just making cost of living more expensive. Adding carbon tax to airplane travel is the government saying airplane travel is bad, so we're going to disincentivize you from traveling outside the continent by making business and vacations outside the continent more expensive.
There's also a ton of places in this country, and especially in this country (namely rural), where transportation by bus, bike, or walking is not possible. Just about every rural person living in this country, including aboriginals, who need to drive into town to buy things because there's no buses just got effed by this government. They also made most everything more expensive to buy, so poor people and aboriginals again are effed, along with everyone else. If your economy runs on fossil fuels, you're taxing life.
Now let's say this carbon tax miraculously reduces Canada's CO2 output by an astonishing 20%. That would reduce the global CO2 output by about 0.3, which would do next to nothing to combat climate change.
Personally, I think we should focus on things every Canadian can do that will cost them nothing or virtually nothing, like installing lights in new/renovated buildings/homes that turn off automatically when you leave the room, or having a switch running to the breaker box you turn off when you go to bed or leave the house that switches off all unnecessary circuits, ie: laundry room. We need a system that makes a difference yet leaves Alberta oil and farmer Joe's tractor alone, because the world needs
requires those and they can't be replaced anytime soon. But alas every party in Parliament is headed by morons.