Quebec is now the only province in Canada that hasn't abandoned carbon pricing, choosing to maintain its 2013 cap-and-trade system. Critics of carbon pricing see this as an opportunity to pressure the provincial government to get rid of it.

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 saw an 18-cent drop in Greater Victoria on Tuesday morning, a day after B.C. Premier David Eby projected they’d drop after the province eliminated its consumer carbon tax.