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The majority of Canadians support battling climate change but don’t want to cough up more than $200 a year in carbon tax.

Think-tank SecondStreet.org hired polling company Nanos Research to conduct the poll that found 47.5% of Canadians are willing to pay $100 or less a year in carbon tax. Another 7.7% would pay $101-$200 annually.

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If the 13.1% of respondents who answered “unsure” are excluded from the results 54.7% of Canadians are not willing to pay over $100 for the tax.

One thousand Canadians 18 or older participated in the survey.

Most past polls on the carbon tax have studied whether or not Canadians supported a carbon tax, but not how much money they’re willing to put where their mouths are.

A tiny minority of respondents (0.2%) to the SecondStreet.org poll were willing to fork over a whopping $10,000 annually to Ottawa to address climate change.

Last month, Toyota Canada paid for a survey that found Canadians are already feeling the squeeze of the carbon tax. The Toyota survey found 47% of Canadians were rethinking taking road trips this summer because of sky-high gas prices.