It's not even half measures, it's the wrong measure.
I don't think a Canadian carbon tax makes any sense anyway because there is no universe where it actually produces any real results in terms of combating climate change; Canada simply doesn't account for a big enough share of global emissions. But even if you leave that aside, and say "well our per capita emissions are high and we should bring them down", then if anything you should be keeping the consumer carbon tax and scrapping the industrial one. Consumer behaviour is actually affected by price increases. Industry is generally doing more or less everything it can already to keep its energy use down because it's trying to minimize cost. And if you increase the industry carbon tax, it'll just be priced in down the chain... ironically, it just becomes an indirect tax increase on consumers that they can't immediately see as a separate cost, just like Trump's tariffs.
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