Liberals promised they wouldn't raise the carbon tax in 2019, just before they did

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In the lead up to the last election, the opposition Conservatives warned that a re-elected Liberal government would raise the carbon tax dramatically.

The Trudeau government of course denied that was the case and took issue with anyone who said otherwise.

“The plan is not to increase the price post-2022,” then-environment minister Catherine McKenna said in June of 2019, just four months before the vote.

Time and again, the Trudeau Liberals said that any claim they would raise the tax was false.

The fact that a hike was coming was plain to see for anyone who bothered to read the government’s own documents, and what politicians and bureaucrats thought was needed to curb emissions.

Of course, less than two months after winning the election, the Liberals did in fact announce that they were raising the carbon tax beyond the $50-per-tonne threshold.

Between 2022 and 2030, the federal carbon tax will rise from $50 a tonne to $170 a tonne by 2030.

That tax is expected to have a dramatic impact on the price of anything and everything that moves by plane, train or truck.

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Prices on food, clothing and transportation are all expected to rise, but the Liberals say voters shouldn’t worry.

The Liberals claim taxpayers will get back more in rebates than they will pay in the tax. They also claim it will help reduce emissions to 30% below 2005 levels by 2030.

Canada’s greenhouse gas emissions stood at 747 million tonnes in 2005 and had shrunk to 723 million tonnes by the time Trudeau took power in 2015.

The latest government figures put Canada’s emissions for 2019, the latest year for which data is available, at 730 million tonnes.