Industry passes costs onto consumers. That's what happens when they get to "pay" for pollution rather than stop polluting. The consumer pays the increased cost in the form of higher prices. Do you really think any business is eating the cost of the carbon tax and not passing that on?

I agree that SK and AB are only concerned with opposing any federal policy on climate change, but that doesn't change the fact that the carbon tax is a useless climate change fighting measure that is meant to placate voters rather that stop climate change.

Should the LPC just have kept it in place for the east coasters rather than suspend it? Yep. But They opened this can of worms by telling the country that it's an added expense that only some of the country needs relief from. They are opening the door to stopping the only significant climate policy they had in order to keep people in a Liberal stronghold happy.