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JAY GOLDBERG: Canadians aren’t buying Mark Carney’s carbon tax spin 

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02.01.2026

A recent poll suggests Canadians aren’t buying what Carney is selling

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Although Prime Minister Mark Carney scrapped the consumer carbon tax in 2025, he is on a mission to make Canadians’ lives more expensive by jacking up industrial carbon taxes in 2026.

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Carney wants Canadians to believe businesses can somehow be taxed without those costs being passed on to consumers.

A recent poll suggests Canadians aren’t buying what Carney is selling.

That poll, from Léger, shows 85% of respondents believe industrial carbon taxes make their lives more expensive, because businesses will pass on at least some or most of the cost to consumers.

Digging deeper, 55% of respondents said they believe businesses pay little of the tax’s cost and pass the vast majority of it on to........

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