Carbon tax will be to the environment what the gas tax was to our roads.....
I tend to agree. The revenue generated isn't (as it should be) used for green technology. If it did, the tax would be easier for me to swallow. It's supposed to be "revenue neutral". Why bother?
It also fails to shift behaviour in rural Canada. We don't have a choice on whether we drive or take public transit because we don't have cabs or busses. We are 150km to a major center, 100km to the closes hospital and many in our town work 20-100km away. We heat with gas, oil or propane, which are all taxed. Some use wood, but no-one is home 24/7 to tend the fire. Electric vehicles aren't ideal out here either.
I have an energy efficient home and we have a fuel efficient car, but have had them well before any carbon tax. It's called saving money.
This year is also very hard for grain farmers out here. Most have to dry every bushel of grain that came off the field, if any came off at all..... Let's tax that gas and propane too! How would you like to spend another 24% to dry grain?
https://www.producer.com/2019/11/carbon-tax-a-grain-drying-mystery/
Then there's the GST on the carbon tax.... really?
The point that I'm trying to make is that the tax won't shift behaviour (out here anyway) because our choices are limited. The Gov't sees this, calls it ineffective and raises the tax. It's a brilliant revenue stream.