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Do we need a carbon tax?

Canada’s federal pricing scheme mixes a fuel charge with an output-based system for big emitters. In theory it is elegant. In practice it fully prices what households cannot easily change and underfunds the substitutes that would replace it.

Innis · 4 min read

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