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Originally Posted by Azure
I'm saying is that using the carbon tax to send rebates to citizens is pointless.
It needs to be used to change behavior AND fund better behavior.
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I think rebate is a bit of a misnomer. If I go pretty much off-grid and bicycle to all my destinations, I would not be paying much into the 'carbon tax' relative to my counterpart who drives everywhere and has no regard for electricity consumption. Yet we would still be eligible for the same amount of 'rebate'.
So there is incentive to change behaviour.
Further, roughly half of the funds received from the carbon tax were invested back into the economy, including into energy efficiency and clean tech technology, greener infrastructure and coal phase out. It's not allowed to go to general revenue.
So is that not pretty much what you were looking for?
https://edmontonjournal.com/news/pol...-been-spent-on
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In terms of single projects, Calgary and Edmonton unsurprisingly topped the list, with $33.5 million dedicated to Calgary’s C-Train Green Line expansion and close to $230 million to Edmonton’s LRT build out. (Both projects are also promised millions of dollars more in coming years).
The bulk of the 2,000 line items funded by the carbon tax, however, are in rural Alberta. They’re small green projects, like energy audits on town buildings, retrofitting arenas with LED lights, helping farmers become more energy efficient, upgrading seniors’ homes and working with First Nations to develop community energy plans
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EDIT: Oh sorry, you're talking federal. Sounds like you were a fan of the NDP's carbon tax plan. In that case, hopefully Kenney is able to ask to go back to the NDP's version instead of taking on the federal one come January 1, 2020. But I wouldn't hold your breath
