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OTTAWA — A British Columbia think tank asked the Conservatives on Thursday to either stop running a new anti-carbon tax ad, or remove the reference in it to Clean Energy Canada’s research.

Dan Woynillowicz, policy director for Clean Energy Canada, says Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer’s new ad misrepresents research done by the Simon Fraser University think tank.

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“The information in the ad needs to be corrected, or it needs to be removed from circulation,” said Woynillowicz.

The ad launched earlier this week and claims that if Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau is re-elected Canadians will pay 31 cents more per litre of gas. In small print at the bottom of the ad, it says 22.5 cents of that comes from Canada Revenue Agency data on the impact of the carbon tax, while five cents is from Clean Energy Canada research on the clean fuel standard. The rest is GST.

The Canada Revenue Agency website says the carbon tax cost by 2022 will be 11 cents a litre. There is no existing plan to raise the tax beyond that year. The Liberals thus far have said only that they plan to review the price in 2022 to determine the next steps, though most experts agree carbon prices only work if they continually rise over time.