Canada’s consumer carbon tax is dead and buried, repealed in 2025. Given the divisive politics that surrounded the carbon tax, many are probably happy never to think about it again. However, research we published last month offers important lessons about how toxic politics threatens the quality of Canada’s public policies and democracy.
Before it was repealed, we asked Canadians what the carbon tax was costing them at the pump. We found that Conservative voters were living in a different world. Compared to neighbours with similar fuel consumption — who would have been taxed roughly the same — they estimated
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