[The Decision here.]( https://decisions.scc-csc.ca/scc-csc/scc-csc/en/item/18781/index.do)
6 Justices in favour, one dissent in part, and two dissents. Pretty clear case thankfully. Now we can stop wasting millions of taxpayer dollars fighting about it.
- The federal minimum price is currently set at $30 per tonne of emissions, and the Liberal government intends to keep raising it until it hits $170 per tonne in 2030.
The policy has been the focus of a heated political battle, however, with federal Conservatives and like-minded provincial governments deriding the carbon price as a “job-killing tax on everything.” Conservative Leader Erin O’Toole has vowed to scrap the policy if he wins power, and has promised to unveil a credible plan to reduce emissions without it.
The Liberal government, meanwhile, has defended the carbon price as an essential tool to reduce emissions and fulfil its promise to exceed Canada’s current goal of reducing emissions to 30 per cent below 2005 levels by 2030, and to hit net-zero emissions by 2050.