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The more real-world experience Canadians have with government-imposed carbon pricing schemes, the more evidence mounts they are money-grabbing scams.

Praised as one of the world’s best carbon taxes when it was introduced by the then-Liberal government of British Columbia on July 1, 2008, B.C.’s revenue neutral carbon tax, the first of its kind in Canada, has had an insignificant impact on industrial greenhouse gas emissions linked to climate change.

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Today, B.C.’s carbon tax is no longer revenue neutral.

The Liberals, prior to their defeat in last year’s provincial election, admitted in 2015 their carbon tax would fail to meet the target they set when they introduced it in 2008 of cutting B.C.’s emissions by at least 33% below 2007 levels by 2020.

This despite billions of taxpayer dollars going into the effort.

As of 2015, the latest year for which figures are available, B.C.’s total emissions were 63.325 megatonnes (a megatonne or Mt represents one million tonnes) compared to 64.660 Mt in 2007.