Retail prices for gasoline fell sharply across Canada after the government on Tuesday removed consumer carbon taxes that had been in effect since 2019.

One of Prime Minister Mark Carney’s first actions when he took office last month was to do away with the consumer carbon charge, which had previously been set at $80 a tonne with yearly increases

Gas prices across B.C. have seen a sharp decline after the consumer carbon tax was lifted in the early hours of April 1.