This article was previously published in the Financial Post.
There are lessons to learn from British Columbia's carbon tax, and the biggest one is for the leader of Ontario's official opposition, Patrick Brown.
The lesson is a simple one. Revenue neutrality doesn't happen.
Politicians sold a carbon tax to British Columbians on the promise of revenue neutrality--the idea that the overall tax burden on the public remains the same because the carbon tax is offset by tax reductions in other areas.
