'It's pretty clear this issue is warming up politically.'
"It's pretty clear this issue is warming up politically."A flare stack lights the sky from the Imperial Oil refinery in Edmonton on Dec. 28, 2018.
"We have been sorry to see that there's a bunch of stuff out there that is either misunderstanding or poorly explained. There are a bunch of myths out there."The worst, Ragan said, is that a carbon tax doesn't work. Three separate studies found B.C.'s tax either didn't affect jobs or added them. A fourth found a small decrease in jobs for less-educated workers. Studies in the U.S. or the U.K. found little or no impact on job numbers.The commission's report finds that far from hurting families, 70 per cent of Canadian households will receive more in carbon tax rebates than they pay.
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