Carbon Pricing Program Costing Taxpayers Nearly $200 Million, Government Records Show

Published on December 8, 2023

The federal government has spent nearly $200 million on carbon tax paperwork since the introduction of the fuel charge in 2019, newly released government records show. Records obtained by the Canadian Taxpayers Federation (CTF) show taxpayers paid $82.6 million for the program in 2022, including salaries for 465 full-time employees. Between 2019 and 2021, those costs were $116.5 million. “The carbon tax is a double whammy for taxpayers,” CTF Federal Director Franco Terrazzano said in a news release. “First, it makes our gas, heating, and groceries more expensive. And then we’re forced to pay higher taxes to fund [Prime Minister Justin] Trudeau’s battalion of carbon tax bureaucrats.”...

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