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Originally Posted by Bend it like Bourgeois
Don't feel sorry for the business, feel sorry for the people who used to work there.
Lots of small businesses are emotional, not rational, and some tire of being kicked in the stones and just close. Maybe they would stay open if the costs were market driven and they thought the future will be different. Either way, their employees are out of work.
Businesses that are more rational and can stay open (the majority) pass on the extra costs. Just as they would any market driven cost. A fuel charge if they can, higher prices where they can, and reducing costs if they have to.
There's a largish retail operation in Alberta that is looking at 5-10m in extra costs for the AB government policies. It'll cost them 500k just to administer the carbon tax for example. No way their leadership just eats 5-10m. It'll come out of labour. Fewer jobs, fewer hours, fewer benefits. And they'll raise prices on top of that because their job is to grow their bottom line not cry when it shrinks.
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What administration costs are you talking about. There's no way that an retail operation has a facility that emits more than 100,000 tonne of CO2e which would require emissions monitoring, and if did have a facility that emitted more than 100,000 tonne of CO2e they would already be paying the costs under the SGER.