The federal government added more meat to the bones of its core environmental policy Monday by releasing draft legislation on how pricing carbon pollution will work in Canada. The new legislation is the federal backstop and will apply to all provinces that haven’t created their own system and put it in place by September 2018. Here are three things to take away from the proposed legislation: The price on carbon pollution will start at $10 a tonne this year and increase to $50 a tonne by 2022. Environment Canada is launching…
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