Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre has shot back at B.C. Premier David Eby\u2019s comment that his plea to halt a federal carbon price increase is a \u201cbaloney factory\u201d campaign tactic.<\/p>\n

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Poilievre told The Roy Green Show<\/em> on Saturday that Eby\u2019s \u201cconstituents can\u2019t even afford to buy baloney after eight years of him, and the NDP and Liberal coalition.\u201d\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cHe should talk to his own citizens in British Columbia who can\u2019t afford to eat, heat and house themselves and join with the seven other premiers who have called on Trudeau to spike this April 1st tax hike,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

In a letter sent Friday, Polievre asked Eby to join seven other premiers in opposing the increase, saying the 23 per cent rise amounts to an extra 18 cents on a litre of fuel, and people in B.C. and Canadians can\u2019t afford it.<\/p>\n

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Poilievre\u2019s letter said the carbon pricing system set up by Trudeau is an imposition on the provinces that requires them to accept an ever-increasing levy.<\/p>\n
But Eby, speaking at an unrelated news conference in Terrace on Friday, said B.C. residents would end up with less money returned to them if the government accepted Poilievre\u2019s \u201ccampaign office and baloney factory\u201d request.<\/p>\n
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\u201cI don\u2019t live in the Pierre Poilievre campaign office and baloney factory,\u201d Eby said. \u201cI live in B.C., am the premier, and decisions have consequences. The fact we face is that if we followed Mr. Poilievre\u2019s suggestion there would be less money returned to British Columbians after April 1 than there would be if the federal government administered this increase directly.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Poilievre reiterated Saturday that the April 1 tax is \u201cabsolutely insane.\u201d<\/p>\n
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\u201cHousing costs have doubled. The carbon tax is quadrupling. Inflation is at its worst in 40 years. That\u2019s (Eby\u2019s) and Justin Trudeau\u2019s record,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
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B.C. introduced North America\u2019s first broad-based price on carbon in 2008, and will administer the coming increase on behalf of the federal government.<\/p>\n
Poilievre\u2019s letter said people in B.C. and across Canada are in need of relief and not tax increases.<\/p>\n
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\u201cIt makes no difference to the hard-working people of B.C. who administers the tax, they still pay it,\u201d Poilievre said in his letter.<\/p>\n
The carbon price is set to rise to $80 per tonne, up from $65 per tonne. The minimum levy will more than double by the end of the current annual increase schedule, hitting $170 per tonne by 2030.<\/p>\n
The premiers that have asked the federal government to drop the April 1 increase are Alberta, Saskatchewan, Ontario, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island and Newfoundland and Labrador.<\/p>\n
Jesse Bartsoff, spokesperson for Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland\u2019s office, defended the carbon pricing plan earlier this month as the \u201cmost cost-effective way\u201d to protect communities from impacts like Atlantic hurricanes to wildfires.<\/p>\n
In February, Ottawa rebranded its carbon pricing rebate program in an effort to make it more clear what the rebate is for when it gets deposited to Canadians\u2019 bank accounts.<\/p>\n
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The government said at the time that about 80 per cent of Canadians are getting more from the rebates than they pay in carbon pricing.<\/p>\n
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