Mr. Speaker, I most certainly will not attempt to describe or explain what the federal government did or did not do with respect to the carbon tax. Mr. Speaker, I can say, just for the sake of information, that community electric power generation for communities is exempted. And obviously, again, our cost of living offset is meant to then adjust to the fact that we know that not only will expenses for -- in a household be going up, but business expenses go up and some of that will then spill over into individual consumers. And so what we tried to do was adjust our cost of living offset to acknowledge all of that. And, again, I have said before the consensus system here is such that we can make adjustments like having the tiered system. I think that was to the benefit of our system, and I'm glad that we have control of our system to be able to make that change. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.
Caroline Wawzonek on Question 1634-19(2): Cost-of-Living IMpacts of Carbon Taxation in the Northwest Territories
In the Legislative Assembly on October 6th, 2023. See this statement in context.
Question 1634-19(2): Cost-of-Living IMpacts of Carbon Taxation in the Northwest Territories
Oral Questions
October 6th, 2023
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