Daniel AJ Sokolov<p>Nobody in <a href="https://social.heise.de/tags/Canada" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Canada</span></a> seems to mind that the consumer <a href="https://social.heise.de/tags/CarbonTax" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CarbonTax</span></a> was scrapped without a decision by <a href="https://social.heise.de/tags/parliament" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>parliament</span></a>. You see, Canada is a <a href="https://social.heise.de/tags/monarchy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>monarchy</span></a>. The <a href="https://social.heise.de/tags/Crown" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Crown</span></a> has to approve all acts, and it can withdraw approval, too. While it's difficult to make new acts without parliament, it's easy to scrap them. Canadians have seen this before. </p><p>In this case, the Crown (Her Excellency the Governor General in Council) simply changed the Regulation under the Act and set the tax rates at zero. The Act remains. <a href="https://social.heise.de/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a></p>