Carney says he’ll scrap the carbon tax, introduce green incentive program if he becomes leader [Video]

Liberal leadership candidate Mark Carney will abandon his party’s consumer carbon tax and replace the policy with an incentive program that rewards Canadians for making green choices. 

The former Bank of Canada and Bank of England governor made the announcement at an event in Halifax Friday morning. 

“The consumer carbon tax isn’t working; it’s become too divisive. That’s why I’ll cancel it and replace it with incentives to reward people for greener choices”, Carney said in a statement released to the media.

The statement explains that the green incentive program he’ll introduce would reward Canadians for buying energy efficient appliances, electric vehicles or better home insulation.

The Carney campaign says replacing the carbon tax with a green incentive program will be one of a suite of measures a Carney government would introduce to combat climate change.

Other measures include investing in energy-efficient buildings, electrified transportation and making big polluters pay. 

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