A post on social media by the Federal Environment Minister, offers comments on New Brunswick’s plan to help combat climate change.
On a Facebook post, Catherine McKenna says she is happy to see significant new investments in energy efficiency. But she adds the province is proposing to take revenues from existing fuel taxes and invest them in climate action, instead of putting a price on carbon across the economy and she says that does not create an incentive to cut carbon pollution.
The federal government will be assessing each jurisdiction’s approach to carbon pricing against the federal government’s standard next year, and if a jurisdiction’s approach doesn’t meet their benchmark, they will apply the federal option there.