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February 14, 2013

Price of Keystone May Be a Carbon Tax

Terence Corcoran, Financial Post


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Hello Canada! Are you ready — ready for a new national tax on carbon that will ding pocketbooks across the country? My bet is that a new carbon tax is coming, made almost inevitable by Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s full-bore push to secure Washington’s approval of the Keystone XL pipeline. . .

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