Rob Shaw: Eby faces off against Poilievre's carbon tax challenge

It’s a clash of political titans over the carbon tax — Canada’s most popular party leader and the man likely to become the country’s next prime minister, versus British Columbia’s most popular politician and the leading candidate to win this October’s provincial election.

There’s a lot going on behind the scenes that have led these two leaders to dig into their positions.He’s arguably the most prominent NDP premier in the country and there’s an easy link to be drawn between Eby’s B.C. NDP and the federal NDP, where leader Jagmeet Singh is propping up the Liberal minority government and looks to be facing annihilation in the next election.

It does not help the NDP’s fortunes that its defence of the carbon tax is so weak. Eby is parroting Trudeau talking points that any reduction in the tax rate would also mean a reduction in the rebate cheques being sent to taxpayers. But B.C.’s argument that it’s spending more on rebates than it is collecting from the carbon tax also struggles upon contact with reality.

That leaves much of the vast urban middle-class voters of Metro Vancouver out in the cold. When they start worrying about the carbon tax adding three cents a litre to the price of gas on April 1, New Democrats will have nothing to offer them other than useless talking points about a rebate they aren’t eligible to get.

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