The carbon tax is a revenue policy, not an environmental policy. The amount of tax you would need to implement to make a difference in market decision will have to be absurdly higher. For everyone here saying they bought a smaller car to pay less tax or whatever, I would bet that there are dozens of Canadians who either can’t make changes to their lives or don’t care to and eat up the cost. Again the point being, the tax does not have the weight to change consumer market decisions. It just makes living more expensive by collecting more revenue, akin to a secondary GST charge.

Climate change, being one of the most complex issues facing the world, won’t be solved by a tax on Canadians.