TRUDEAU JOINING GLOBAL REVOLUTION

   Chris Selley:  In Friday’s announcement that the federal carbon tax would soar to $170 a tonne by 2030, adding 28 cents to the average price of a litre of gasoline, some Canadians see further evidence that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is joining a global revolution — a wholesale, tax-induced adoption of less mobile, more vegetarian and generally far less consumptive lifestyles in the world’s wealthiest countries, with the COVID-19 pandemic serving as a catalyst.

 For the first time in the country’s history, a federal government has tabled a plan that economists and climate scientists agree may well achieve our universally agreed-upon emissions targets. You certainly don’t have to like it. Plenty of carbon tax purists, never mind detractors, find it maddening: Instead of setting a price and letting the market sort it out, the plan comes with $15 billion in targeted subsidies for electric cars, home renovations and other campaign-friendly baubles.