Canada will introduce a plan for a national carbon price in the fall, Minister of the Environment Catherine McKenna said Friday on Bloomberg TV. “We need a national price on carbon, so that is what we are going to have in the fall,” she said during the interview.
The minister dodged questions about what would happen to provinces that would resist a carbon price, saying that “What key is that we get a nation price and that provinces look at what are the opportunities for them.”
The provinces of Quebec, British Columbia, Alberta, and Ontario have all pursued carbon pricing at the provincial level. “There are already 80 percent of Canadians living in a jurisdiction [that has a carbon price],” McKenna said.
The carbon pricing plan will be part of a larger plan to combat climate change, the minister said. “The plan will include carbon pricing. Clearly it’s not just going to be carbon pricing, there are other tools. We know that we have emissions from different sectors, from buildings, from oil and gas, from vehicles, so it’s going to be a comprehensive plan,” she said.
