Consumers Could Find ‘Meaningful Savings’ as Carbon Tax Ends: Desjardins

A gas pump is shown at a filling station in Montreal on April 12, 2017. The Canadian Press/Graham Hughes

Canadians can expect to feel the absence of the consumer carbon price at the pumps immediately but it may take longer to notice a difference in the price of other goods, a new report released Wednesday suggests.

The analysis by Desjardins Economics comes less than a week after Prime Minister Mark Carney and his new Liberal cabinet ordered that the consumer levy be set to zero on April 1.