Federal Research Found Carbon Tax Widely Unpopular in Atlantic Canada Before Home Heating Oil Exemption

Views include calling the federal carbon tax ’too complicated‘ and ’pointless.’

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announces a three-year pause on carbon tax measures that are applied to heating oil, in Ottawa on Oct. 26, 2023. The Canadian Press/Sean Kilpatrick

The federal government’s billion-dollar carbon tax cut on home heating oil was implemented after repeated warnings from in-house pollsters of the unpopularity of the policy.

According to Privy Council records obtained by Blacklock’s Reporter, federal researchers spent months questioning Atlantic focus groups on the federal carbon tax, issuing reports in May, June, and July 2023.