Liberals promised the carbon tax would reduce emissions, but emissions went up

The Trudeau government pushed the carbon tax as the best way to help the environment and reduce emissions.

But it’s clear a carbon tax in Canada wouldn’t be effective at lowering global emissions. That’s because Canada only makes up 1.4 per cent of global emissions, a fact former prime minister Justin Trudeau acknowledged.

“Even if Canada stopped everything tomorrow, and the other countries didn’t have any solutions, it wouldn’t make a big difference,” Trudeau said in 2018.

Carney will be worse.