| Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced Monday the federal government will set a national "floor price" on carbon that all provinces must levy on emissions, a move that will force the nine provinces and territories that do not already have a pricing mechanism to act.
Trudeau said pricing should start at a minimum of $10 per tonne of carbon dioxide emissions in 2018, rising by $10 each year to $50 a tonne by 2022. Roughly 85 per cent of Canadians already live in a jurisdiction that has a price on greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions — programs in B.C. and Quebec are already up and running, with Alberta and Ontario soon to follow in January 2017..............................................Full Article: Source
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