David Eby

“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.

“The member is completely wrong when she thinks about reconciliation as a cost, because in our province, reconciliation represents, we believe, in the order of probably $100 billion to $150 billion in economic activity, tens of thousands of jobs, and certainty and predictability for people and businesses across the province. These numbers are backed by companies advancing major projects in this country.”

Response to independent MLA Tara Armstrong in the Legislative Assembly. Eby defended his 2019 vote for DRIPA and the broader reconciliation framework, characterising opposition to it as "clearly anti-Indigenous, unambiguously racist." This position is consistent with his 2019 caucus vote in favour of DRIPA — not a flip.

“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.