For example, Quebec has become the last province in Canada that has not abandoned carbon prices, the provincial government can begin to feel pressure to organize itself with the rest of the country.
Quebec has long been a widespread consensus on the need to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and the cap-under-track system of the province, launched in 2013, has not been particularly controversial.
But some say that it may change in Prime Minister Mark Carne’s decision to scrap the federal consumer carbon price – especially once the quibes will see the difference on the pump.
By Tuesday, the federal carbon price applicable to most provinces and regions has been officially canceled. British Columbia, who was the first province to impose its carbon price in 2008, has also canceled its tax.
Asked on Monday, he should work kindly, Premier Francois Legault said he would wait to see the result of the April 28 federal election. “We definitely have to be competitive,” he told reporters during a trip to Germany.
He added that Quebec’s cap-and-train system “is finally low cost for the customer” than the federal carbon price “.
Federal criteria are now gone, however, critics at carbon prices say that it is a matter of time before quasibers begin to feel pain at the pump. “When we compare the prices between Gatinau or Montreal and TT Towa … that difference will be amazing,” said Carol Montrail, Vice-President of the Canadian Fuel Association.
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“I think many people will question whether it may be time to pause on the (cap-and-track) system.”
He said that many Quibesers, especially the U.S. President Donald will look at the government for a break with the additional load of Trump’s tariff.
In the absence of carbon prices, it is difficult to predict how Quebec gas prices will compare with the rest of the country. In 2024, the Federal Levi gave a stake of 17.6 cents per liter gas. Quebec’s cap-and-train system, linked to California, is currently priced at 10 cents per liter.
But University de Montreal’s Business School, H.E.C. Pierre-Olivier Pinaau, president of the Energy Sector Management at Montrial, warned that people outside Quebec on Tuesday would not reduce gas prices by 18 cents. “For the minimum period of transit, the distributor and service stations will keep a large profit margin,” he said.
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On March 31, the website Gasbuddy.com showed Quebec to the lowest – average of $ 1.53 gas per liter in the country. The average price in BC was full of 25 cents high, which is around 78 1.78 per liter.
Canadian taxpayers told Nicholas Gagan, director of the Federation’s Cubic, “One thing is clear. He said, “Quebec will go from places where gas is currently affordable in one place where the price is the highest in the country.”
The Gagnan Quebec hopes to capture the “window window” to force the government to abolish its carbon price.
But Normand Mosau, a professor of physics of the University’s Physics and the University’s Energy Institute, said that no major political party in Quebec has come out against the cap-and-trade system. He said the quibes are unlikely to pay more attention to the price of gas in the neighboring provinces.
“There is a consensus in Quebec that climate issues are real and we should do something,” he said. “So it’s hard to see me being a political issue right now.”
Pinaau said that if the government starts to feel pressure on carbon prices, it can always choose to redirect some income from the carbon market to the taxpayers. Currently, the money goes into the electrification and climate change funds, which will be spent on programs that reduce emissions.
The carbon value of Quebec is different from the federal system, another way, which returned most of the revenue directly to the homes.
But Pinaau added that the reason that Quebec’s cap-and-track system does not become a political electricity rod is only more complicated than carbon recovery, and the cost is less clear.
He said, “If you do not understand something, it is difficult to be against it.”
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