The national price on pollution will rise by $15 per tonne today. Here’s some questions answered about what this could mean for you.
Who pays the carbon price?
Canada has two different carbon pricing programs — one for big industry where companies pay the price on a share of their actual emissions, and a consumer carbon levy which is applied to fossil fuel purchases.
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