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Feds Approve Alberta's Carbon Tax On Big Industrial Emitters

Darpan News Desk The Canadian Press, 06 Dec, 2019 09:22 PM

    OTTAWA - The federal government is giving the Alberta government a passing grade for its industrial carbon tax.

     

    Environment Minister Jonathan Wilkinson says today his department agrees Alberta's planned $30-a-tonne carbon price on emissions from big industry meets federal requirements.

     

    However the climate battles between Ottawa and Edmonton will continue because on Jan. 1 the federal government will still start applying its carbon tax on the purchase in Alberta of fuels like gasoline, natural gas, and propane.

     

    Alberta used to have a consumer carbon tax on fuel but Premier Jason Kenney and the newly elected United Conservative Party cancelled it earlier this year.

     

    A fuel surcharge and a carbon tax for big industry are the two components of the national carbon pricing system applied in any province without similar systems of their own.

     

    Since April, Ottawa has applied the fuel surcharge in Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Ontario and New Brunswick but Saskatchewan was exempted from most of the big-industry element because it has a version that Ottawa deemed strong enough.

     

    RCMP charge Guelph, Ont., man with terrorism-related offences Guelph, Ont., man facing terrorism charges

    TORONTO - The RCMP says a 22-year-old man from southern Ontario who once stood trial on terrorism-related charges in Turkey is now facing two similar counts at home.

     

    Const. Louise Savard says Ikar Mao, of Guelph, Ont., was previously arrested in Turkey on charges related to alleged affiliation with Islamic State militants.

     

    Savard says Mao was not convicted on those charges and returned to Canada in October.

     

    She says the man was arrested this morning at an RCMP detachment located near Toronto's Pearson International Airport.

     

    Mao is now charged with participating in the activities of a terrorist group and leaving Canada to take part in terrorist group activity.

     

    Savard says the RCMP investigation remains active.

     

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