On 23 October 2018, the Canadian Government announced the next steps in its climate change plan, which includes ensuring that there is a price on carbon pollution across Canada in 2019 and implementing a fuel charge in provinces/territories that do not have systems meeting a federal standard, or in those that voluntarily adopt it (the backup system). To date, the following provinces/territories have developed their own system: Alberta, British Columbia, Newfoundland and Labrador, Northwest T…