Canada's budget watchdog troubled by spin around latest report on carbon pricing

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Canada’s parliamentary budget officer says he is troubled by what he describes as the selective use of facts from his new financial analysis of carbon pricing.

Yves Giroux said the report has to be put into context alongside the costs of all other climate policies, including doing nothing.

“There will be costs no matter what we do,” Giroux said in an interview.

Giroux opened a political firestorm last week with a new report that concluded carbon price rebates are worth more than the direct cost of the carbon price for 80 per cent of families. But he said when factoring in the carbon price’s

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