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It’s no joke.

Carbon pricing is back in Ontario as of Monday, even as Ontario’s Doug Ford government and the federal Liberals remain locked in a confusing back-and-forth jurisdictional dispute.

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The two sides won’t even agree on what to call it — the province says it’s a “carbon tax” and the feds dub it “pollution pricing.”

Consumers will see the increase reflected at the pumps and their home heating bills.

And a majority of Ontarians will certainly notice the ‘Climate Action Incentive’ payment from the federal government to compensate them for these new expenses. Less obvious will be the increased prices across the economy as businesses adapt to the new higher cost of doing business.

It began with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s climate change legislation that required all provinces to put some kind of price on carbon or watch as the feds did it for them.

The former Kathleen Wynne government brought in a cap-and-trade program, which complied with the federal edict.