Open Letter: Industrial Carbon Pricing

August 2025

In the face of recent calls to “axe the tax”, RAD Network is submitting an open letter urging the Canadian government to to keep and strengthen Canada’s industrial carbon pricing system.

Research by the Canadian Climate Institute confirms industrial carbon pricing delivers three times the emissions reduction of the consumer price—and with reforms, can achieve up to 25 megatonnes of additional reductions by 2030.

Rather than scrapping the industrial carbon pricing system, we’re calling for it to be modernized, expanded, and leveraged for Indigenous-led climate and biodiversity solutions. Now’s the time to improve carbon pricing, not weaken it. This starts with creating pathways for Indigenous-led nature-based solutions that align with rights, responsibilities, and long-term planetary stewardship.

Our open letter includes three key recommendations to the Prime Minister’s Office:

1. Modernize Canada’s industrial carbon pricing system—expand coverage, raise stringency, and create investment certainty through interprovincial linkages.
2. Maintain and integrate the oil & gas emissions cap alongside pricing, ensuring enforceable emissions reductions in the country’s most polluting sector.
3. Center Indigenous leadership in all carbon program development—ensuring that Indigenous Peoples have access to markets, resources, and decision-making in support of self-determined regenerative futures.

The solution is not to scale back—but to scale forward, with integrity, clarity, and Indigenous vision at the heart of climate action.

Submit Your Own Letter:

We encourage you to re-use/build on the text shared in our open letter to submit your own letter.

>> CLICK HERE to download a template letter.

Submit your letter by mail to:

Office of the Prime Minister
80 Wellington Street
Ottawa, ON
K1A 0A2

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