Premier David Eby mocks Pierre Poilievre's letter asking B.C. to join carbon tax fight

Poilievre's letter says the carbon tax system set up by Trudeau's government is an imposition on the provinces that requires them to accept an ever-increasing tax.

But Eby, speaking at an unrelated news conference in Terrace about 1,400 kilometres northwest of Vancouver, says B.C. would end up with less money returned to the province if it accepted Poilievre's request.

"I don't live in the Pierre Poilievre campaign office and baloney factory," said Eby. "I live in B.C., am the premier and decisions have consequences. The fact we face is that if we followed Mr. Poilievre's suggestion there would be less money returned to British Columbians after April 1 than there would be if the federal government administered this increase directly."