Alberta Premier Says Carney Plan to Shift Carbon Tax From Consumers to Industry Will Be ‘Just as Damaging’

Alberta Premier Danielle Smith speaks to delegates at the Global Energy Show in Calgary on June 13, 2023. Jeff McIntosh/The Canadian Press

Alberta Premier Danielle Smith is raising concerns about Prime Minister Mark Carney’s carbon reduction policies, saying that increasing the industrial carbon tax to offset the removal of the consumer carbon tax would have negative economic impacts on the province.

Smith made the comments on March 14, the same day Carney signed a directive to reduce the consumer carbon tax rate to zero, shortly after being sworn in as Canada’s prime minister.