With Canada’s six-year national carbon tax experiment coming to an end, the early results are that program has collected about $45 billion while having few immediately perceptible impacts on carbon emissions.

To be sure, carbon emissions have gone steadily down since the Trudeau government’s Greenhouse Gas Pollution Pricing Act entered into force in 2019.

While the tax started in 2019, the carbon footprint of a dollar earned in the economy has been in steep decline ever since peaking in 1996.{ai:summary}<p>Canada's national carbon tax, after six years, has raised approximately $45 billion but shows limited immediate effects on carbon emissions. Despite this, carbon emissions have decreased since the implementation of the Greenhouse Gas Pollution Pricing Act in 2019. #economy</p>

Canada's federal carbon tax experiment has ended. Here's what it accomplished (not much)

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