Average carbon rebates were higher than average carbon price costs in 2021: report

OTTAWA — A new report says rebates sent to most Canadians in 2021 far outstripped what they paid in carbon pricing that year.

The annual report on the federal government’s national price on pollution says on average, families in the four affected provinces received between 34 per cent and 59 per cent more from the “climate action incentive” rebates than they paid in carbon pricing.

Every province must have the same price levied on greenhouse-gas emitting fuels but only Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba and Ontario used the federal system that year.

Every other province had their own consumer carbon-pricing program.