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Western States Petroleum Assn. spokesman Jim Stanley also pointed to an analysis conducted by the California Center for Jobs & the Economy, which describes the legislation as a “de facto carbon tax” that would ripple across goods, services and regional economies and create an annual household burden of up to $3,400.

I thought the carbon tax was a good measure.

I think the Conservatives have backed away from climate change - they keep talking about 'axing the tax' and don't want to pay carbon tax.

Poilievre, whose party has a strong voter base in energy-rich regions of the country, is pushing for a major expansion of the oil and gas industries and the removal of the carbon tax on industry.

The Conservatives under Pierre Poilievre want to invigorate the oil and gas sector and scrap the industrial carbon tax.