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TLDR: PBO issued a report (due to an "error") that suggested carbon pricing has a negative economic impact than doing nothing. This error was discovered by third party experts and public critics only upon its release. The premise of "doing nothing" having lower economic costs is false because increased carbon emissions have economic costs, and Canada in breach of global carbon reduction agreements it signed up to has trade and economic costs. None of which PBO accounted for in its erroneous analysis. PBO further states that the government has its own analysis of carbon pricing but he doesn't have the authority to release it.

This sounds to me like PBO is sabotaging the government on this policy issue, 1st by attempting to show that carbon pricing had negative economic impact, and 2nd by suggesting government is withholding its own analysis.

The sad part about all of this is that it really does not matter what facts are released, what reports are corrected, or what expert sides with who.

For every one piece of real information there are 100 false or misleading pieces around it. That is what I am noticing anyways. I can barely find a news article from a week ago without going direct to source and even then the search option on News sites leaves much to be desired.

I don't even know what I am trying to say anymore. Anyone interested in forming a new party before next federal? I am serious if you are.

This is the best summary I could come up with:

The parliamentary budget officer's analysis of federal carbon pricing is reportedly the subject of a "fight" with the Liberal government that includes allegations of "secret data" being withheld from the public.

On that score, the PBO estimated that most households did receive more from the rebate than they paid in additional costs — confirming one of the government's central arguments for the policy.

For one thing, the PBO didn't attempt to analyze any benefits that might result from lower greenhouse gas emissions (some economists and government departments use a measure known as the "social cost of carbon").

"The PBO compares costs relative to a world in which Canada simply ignores its emissions — and faces no consequences," experts with the Canadian Climate Institute wrote last year.

That led the Conservatives to allege that the government is hiding a "secret carbon tax report" and that the PBO is under some kind of "gag" order.

Jasraj Singh Hallan, the Conservative finance critic, said the analysis, once released, would "lambaste and completely put to shame the claims on the carbon tax scam."

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