B.C. Premier says province will drop carbon pricing if Ottawa eliminates legal requirement

British Columbia’s NDP Premier, David Eby, the last premier in the country to defend carbon pricing and whose province was the first in Canada to have such a system, says he would eliminate the levy if the federal government drops legislation requiring it.“Our commitment is that, if the federal government decides to remove the legal backstop requiring us to have a consumer carbon tax in British Columbia, we will end the consumer carbon tax in British Columbia,” he told a news conference in Vancouver on Thursday.