B.C. Liberal leader wants U.S. coal hit with carbon tax after softwood levy
MERRITT, B.C. — British Columbia Liberal Leader Christy Clark is threatening to impose a carbon tax on thermal coal coming from the United States.
Clark told reporters while campaigning today in B.C.’s Interior that she wants to make it uncompetitive to ship the coal through the province’s ports.
She says if the federal government won’t act, the Liberals would develop regulations that impose a carbon price of about $70 per tonne on thermal coal if they are re-elected in the May 9 election.
The plan escalates a threat she made last week after the American’s imposed an average duty of 20 per cent on Canadian softwood lumber.