{"id":87781,"date":"2017-02-03T00:27:44","date_gmt":"2017-02-03T05:27:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=87781"},"modified":"2017-02-03T00:27:44","modified_gmt":"2017-02-03T05:27:44","slug":"ndp-promises-climate-rebate-cheques-for-families-in-british-columbia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/02\/03\/ndp-promises-climate-rebate-cheques-for-families-in-british-columbia\/","title":{"rendered":"NDP promises climate rebate cheques for families in British Columbia"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_87782\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-87782\" style=\"width: 609px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/BC.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-87782\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/BC.png\" alt=\"NDP promises climate rebate cheques for families in British Columbia (Photo:  LASZLO ILYES\/Flickr)\" width=\"609\" height=\"405\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/BC.png 609w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/BC-300x200.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 609px) 100vw, 609px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-87782\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">NDP promises climate rebate cheques for families in British Columbia (Photo: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/laszlo-photo\/4868076173\/in\/photostream\/\">LASZLO ILYES\/Flickr<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>VANCOUVER\u2014British Columbia&#8217;s New Democrats are promising rebate cheques to offset increases in the cost of the province&#8217;s carbon tax, if the party wins May&#8217;s election.<\/p>\n<p>NDP Leader John Horgan did not say how much the cheques would be worth, but promised 80 per cent of residents would be eligible for the rebates.<\/p>\n<p>He says the NDP&#8217;s plan targets the Liberal government&#8217;s carbon tax, which is set to increase to $50 per tonne of carbon emissions in 2022.<\/p>\n<p>The nine-year-old carbon tax is set at $30 per tonne and is scheduled to increase to comply with the federal government&#8217;s national carbon plan.<\/p>\n<p>Horgan said rebate cheques would be issued on the first month of each scheduled increase.<\/p>\n<p>Horgan says carbon pollution has been rising under Premier Christy Clark&#8217;s government and Environment Canada forecasts carbon pollution will increase by 32 per cent in B.C. by 2030.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VANCOUVER\u2014British Columbia&#8217;s New Democrats are promising rebate cheques to offset increases in the cost of the province&#8217;s carbon tax, if &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":87782,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,18,16,483],"tags":[14626,14627],"class_list":["post-87781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-news-ca","category-news","category-politics","tag-british-columbias-new-democrats","tag-rebate-cheques","mauthors-the-canadian-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87781","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87781"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87781\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}