{"id":36665,"date":"2019-09-16T10:04:55","date_gmt":"2019-09-16T14:04:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/economics\/?p=36665"},"modified":"2025-06-11T09:08:58","modified_gmt":"2025-06-11T13:08:58","slug":"professor-maya-papineau-comments-on-carbon-tax-and-upcoming-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/economics\/2019\/professor-maya-papineau-comments-on-carbon-tax-and-upcoming-election\/","title":{"rendered":"Professor Maya Papineau comments on carbon tax and upcoming election"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Professor Maya Papineau comments on carbon tax and upcoming election\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<p>\u201cThe view that neither plan is enough has given support to the Green Party, which hasn\u2019t been politically significant in past elections but is riding a wave of support, said Maya Papineau, assistant professor in environmental economics at ÐÓ°ÉÔ­´´ University in Ottawa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cPapineau thinks the fact polls show broad support for carbon taxes in Canada means they won\u2019t be as divisive during the campaign as they\u2019ve been up to now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201c\u2018There\u2019s a reasonably good chance that the carbon tax won\u2019t be a liability in this election,\u2019\u201d she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(<a href=\"https:\/\/news.bloombergtax.com\/daily-tax-report-international\/carbon-taxes-likely-to-be-key-concern-in-canada-election\">James Munson, \u201cCarbon Taxes Likely to be Key Concern in Canada Election\u201d Bloomberg Tax<\/a> at www.bloombergtax.com)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe view that neither plan is enough has given support to the Green Party, which hasn\u2019t been politically significant in past elections but is riding a wave of support, said Maya Papineau, assistant professor in environmental economics at ÐÓ°ÉÔ­´´ University in Ottawa. \u201cPapineau thinks the fact polls show broad support for carbon taxes in Canada [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":36687,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[95,176,97,44],"class_list":["post-36665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-bloomberg","tag-carbon-tax","tag-election","tag-maya-papineau"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36665","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36665"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36665\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36688,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36665\/revisions\/36688"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}