According to government propaganda this is intended to encourage people to consider the use of carbon based energy sources.
This is a tax on the general population that is contributing about 30% of carbon emissions from transportation and heating.
So instead of attacking the citizens, why not impose an action on the 70% contributors, heavy industry?

Also, if you look at this globally, Canada contributes less than 5% overall to the carbon in the world and china contributes about 30%. So I am to understand that Canadian citizens are to pay for China's excess contribution to the world's pollution?

Campbell likes to use the term "we".
He should be careful with that,because given the paycheck he gave himself and his cronies,do "we" really think "he" will feel much of the extra costs this winter that "he" stuck us with, because of a carbon tax on heating fuel?
To say nothing of at the the gas pumps or here in the north, where winter doesn't even resemble what it is like on the lower mainland?
I wonder if he even noticed the price of oil today?
He tries to make it sound as if "we' are all in this together.
Not even close Gordon!
Gordon Campbell lives in a world of the privilaged and the highly paid,thanks only to himself.
The people of B.C. did not give that to them,they just took it.
He gets a big fat raise(2)with our tax dollars and we get screwed.
He has no concept of what low income,single mothers,or seniors on fixed incomes will feel because of what his government has done by whacking us with this carbon tax, on top of the already rapidly rising costs.
Nor does he care.
This IS going to come back to haunt him and rightly so!
And I do not think for one second he is done with us yet.
He said nothing new or inspiring on Meisners show,just more of the same old rhetoric.
Which is exactly what I expected.

"he says it means we all have to work together."

Translation....You have no say in this matter, I know what is best for everyone and you will do what you are told.

Notice we are paying a environment tax on your hydro bill??????

5% for Canada
30% for China

That is 0.15% for each million Canadians and 0.02% for each million Chinese. Each Canadian contributes more than 7 times as much as each Chinese.

Where are the funds collected from the carbon tax going? To some worthwhile research or development in that field? Or just to support the bureacracy? If it is going to a positive cause, it would be more palatable, and reasonable.

Willowwynde I fear that the proceeds from the carbon tax will simply disappear into the the great yawning maw that is our tax collection machine, much as the funds collected everytime you buy a battery or a tire, I have not noticed the government forces picking up all those worn out tires and batteries, have you?
To be sure, we are paynig our share and then some for the so called greening of the environment.
metalman.

You're right metalman,it's a money grab plain and simple,and it is only going to get worse as time goes on.
All this "green" rhetoric we are bombarded with has given the government a whole new game to play at the taxpayer's expense.
If we listen close enough,we can hear the laughter all the way down in Victoria.

Taxes are killing us. Debt is killing us. The governments are out of control and they don't care about you and me. I can't imagine in my wildest dreams the prospect of adding yet one more tax or increasing our existing taxes to an overtaxed citizen of this amazing country we live in. My goal in life is to lobby government to reduce debt, to reduce taxes, to reduce the size of government, to reduce red tape, to reduce the governments interference in our lives. We are dying. Initiative is being thrwarted and hope is being lost. "A sensible approach to carbon tax"? This Premier we have is out of touch. Time for a reality check, along with all of his supporters. Chester

Governments wil reduce around the same time obese people do. Fat chance!

Hey Chester. Got a warm bed? Got enough to eat? Good fer you. Half the world doesn't have those. Count yer blessings. I do. As you get older those two are the most important certainties. The rest are window dressings.

Yep Harbinger, I have a warm bed and lots enough to eat. I enjoy a lifestyle that the top 2% in the entire world enjoy. And I'm not one of the rich and famous either. I have no problem giving 50% of my income away, but not to the government. I can do 10 times as much with my dollar rather than having government grind it up in their wasteful style. I am blessed and am fortunate to be in a position to bless others. Chester