The federal government is cutting the amount of financial relief small businesses will receive from carbon pricing revenues so it can increase the size of the rebate it is providing to rural families.
The federal government is cutting the amount of financial relief small businesses will receive from carbon pricing revenues so it can increase the size of the rebate it is providing to rural families.
This is effectively more vote buying targeted at Atlantic Canada (and maybe Quebec), because no other rural areas with enough seats to make a difference are going to vote Liberal regardless of what happens