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Taxpayer advocates blast industrial carbon tax hike as "bad deal" for Albertans

“The carbon tax hike is a certainty, a pipeline is a maybe,” says Franco Terrazzano, CTF Federal Director.

Alex Dhaliwal
May 21, 2026
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Taxpayer advocates are raising concerns about the Canada–Alberta implementation agreement, warning it will increase the industrial carbon tax and worsen affordability at the grocery store and pumps.

“Politicians should be getting rid of carbon taxes, not hiking them,” said Franco Terrazzano, CTF Federal Director. “It doesn’t matter how politicians dress up their carbon taxes, all carbon taxes make life more expensive and make Canadian businesses less competitive.

“The carbon tax hike is a certainty, a pipeline is a maybe.”

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