Canadian Politics Today

I stopped reading at the words Fraser Institute.

The recent provincial budget not only makes plans to hike the carbon tax by two-thirds – rising from $30/tonne to $50/tonne by 2021 − but eliminates from law the requirement for offsetting tax cuts. From now on the Horgan government plans to use its carbon tax windfall to "create jobs, benefit communities and reduce climate pollution." In other words, all the usual things governments spend your tax dollars on already.

https://business.financialpost.com/opinion/how-b-c-s-formerly-revenue-neutral-carbon-tax-turned-into-another-government-cash-grab

Those reductions may have been achieved by simple conservation efforts based on the raised fuel efficiency of cars over that period.

People will absorb this tax grab and not change their behaviour all that much. People still have to drive to work, people still want to see friends and family.

And the rebate is a joke as well. It can't accurately calculate how much carbon you use and how much you deserve to get back. The rebates are based on averages.

How is it mostly? Is it being calculated based on each individual's emissions (that's rhetorical because that's impossible) or are they just re-distributing the money?

We'll continue to see a reduction in emissions simply because of more efficient technology. As we should be.

Not by each person. What if you don't drive? Why would you qualify for any rebate?

What if you drive a lot? Then the rebate should be higher?

The only way to make it revenue neutral would be to claim all the things you buy that are subject to this tax and get the rebate as a percentage of that. And if that would be the case. What would the point be? It's just an extra level of government.

Also, HST is collected on top of the Carbon tax. A tax on a tax. So it's pretty much a Tax Grab.

So it's still a tax grab for certain people. AND there's still the whole HST on top of the tax thing, which I'm guess the Liberals won't be redistributing.

This whole move is just virtue signalling. People who think it'll do anything to actually reduce emissions are delusional.

So it's still a tax grab for certain people.

Yes, it appears that the NDP has changed the law, and so now it won't be revenue neutral.  Up until this point, it has very much been.  Any reduction in taxes is still a reduction in taxes.