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Exempting one form of heating and not another seems wrong (especially when the exempted one is "dirtier" as far as I know). Is Canada not redistributing the carbon tax? Many other countries do it that way - all or at least a significant part of the carbon tax is paid out to the population, so if your consumption is below average, you get more money than you pay.
That way, people remain able to afford things, people who consume less CO2 intensive products than the average are actually better off, and the incentive to optimize for reduced emissions remains.
The argument here is that this heating oil is used disproportionately in one of the most impoverished parts of the country, and is already something like 4x more expensive than more common methods like natural gas.
Most people get quarterly rebates, yeah. I suppose the counter argument is that a quarterly payment doesn't help much when you're surviving month-to-month.
All that said, this entire debacle is a massive unforced error on the part of the feds, and the entire carbon tax is in danger because of it.