Canada Carbon Tax, Carbon Credit Rules Are Flawed, Watchdog Says

Canada’s system for imposing carbon taxes and similar programs across the country is applied unevenly and doesn’t ensure large enough cuts in greenhouse gas emission from large industrial operations, a watchdog said Tuesday.

Environment and Climate Change Canada’s enforcement of the Greenhouse Gas Pollution Pricing Act—which requires every province and territory to have a program that puts in place a price on emissions—also fails to provide enough public information and unfairly targets indigenous people and small businesses, the Commissioner of the Environment and Sustainable Development said in a report.

“Canada’s carbon pricing approach needs further improvement to support the ...