WHEN WILL LIBERALS RAISE THE CARBON TAX?

  I was shaken from this happy reverie by Conservative finance critic Pierre Poilievre rising to launch into a refrain that was repeated by a subsequent half-dozen official opposition MPs, and that will be echoed with metronomic regularity by every Tory candidate between now and October 21st.
   The charge is that the Liberals secretly intend to raise taxes after the next election.
  Specifically, the Conservatives wanted to know, when will Prime Minister Justin Trudeau bring in a carbon tax 15 times higher than the $20-per-tonne rate that will come into force in April.The $300-per-tonne figure was mentioned in an internal document — a briefing note Environment Canada prepared in 2015 for new minister Catherine McKenna. The note suggested that the price on carbon would have to go that high by 2050 to meet Canada’s emissions targets.
  The Environment Canada modelling, which became public in 2017, suggested that a price of $100 per tonne would have to be in place by 2020 if Canada is to achieve 30-per-cent reductions from 2005 emission levels by 2030.