The claim that carbon pricing will kill jobs may be powerful rhetoric, but it’s simply not true. The four provinces that had carbon pricing in place – BC, Alberta, Quebec, and Ontario – led Canada in GDP growth in 2017. Alberta’s unemployment rate has dropped from 8.7 per cent in January 2017, when they introduced carbon pricing, to 6.5 per cent today. Alberta is projected to lead Canada in economic growth in 2018, while B.C. has the lowest unemployment rate in Canada.
