Consumer carbon tax
U-turn· 10 monthsPledged at the November 2023 BC NDP convention that the province would not back down on the carbon tax even if the rest of Canada abandoned it. On September 12, 2024, weeks before the provincial election, announced BC would scrap the consumer carbon tax if Ottawa dropped its legal requirement. BC's consumer carbon tax was subsequently eliminated in 2025.
“Let me be clear: we will not back down. God forbid, if the rest of the country abandons the fight against climate, B.C. will stand strong.”
Said at the 2023 BC NDP convention while pledging that BC would uphold the carbon tax as other provinces began backing away from federal carbon-pricing commitments.
“If the federal government decides to remove the legal backstop requiring us to have a consumer carbon tax in B.C., we will end the consumer carbon tax in B.C.”
Announced at a September 12, 2024 press event one month before the BC provincial election. In the same announcement Eby also said: "Two things will happen. One is we'll remove the carbon tax for everyday British Columbians, for the farmers, for the truckers, for the average British Columbian." The federal backstop was removed in 2025 and BC subsequently eliminated its consumer carbon tax.