Carbon Tax May Impact Canada’s Food Security: Professor

As the federal carbon tax is set to increase again on April 1, Canadian consumers’ “greatest concern” should be its impact on the competitiveness of the food supply chain, a Dalhousie University professor says. On April 1, the federal carbon tax is set to rise by 23 percent, climbing from $65 per tonne to $80 per tonne. This means the carbon tax will make up 17.6 cents of the cost of a litre of gasoline, an increase of 3.3 cents from the current 14.3 cents. “The greatest concern we should all have is how the policy is impacting our food industry’s competitiveness, from farmgate to plate,” wrote Sylvain Charlebois, senior director at the Agri-Food Analytics Lab at Dalhousie University in Halifax, in a March 16 post on social media platform X....