What we call a carbon tax really taxes petroleum industry

Colin Dormuth, a UBC professor of anesthesiology, pharmacology and therapeutics wrote an op-ed for the National Post about the Canadian carbon tax.

“Taxes need to be accurately applied so that markets are not unduly distorted. Yet what we have come to think of as a carbon tax is actually a tax that discriminates against the products of a specific industry, rather than one that is applied to all economic activity that generates gas with carbon in it,” he wrote.