B.C. will scrap carbon tax if NDP get re-elected

Premier vows to instead focus on big polluters

- DARRYL GREER

VANCOUVER A re-elected NDP government would scrap British Columbia's long-standing carbon tax and shift the burden to "big polluters" if the federal government dropped its requirement for the law, Premier David Eby said Thursday.

At a campaign event in Vancouver, Eby said his government would end the provincial carbon tax on consumers if the federal "legal backstop" requiring the province to keep the tax in place is removed.