Despite calling for its demise for years, Alberta Premier Danielle Smith says she isn't fazed by the new prime minister's move to kill the consumer carbon levy. On Friday — moments after news broke that Prime Minister Mark Carney had eliminated the pricing scheme — Smith told reporters in Calgary the real test of the new federal government will be how it levies carbon pricing on industrial polluters.

Prime Minister Mark Carney wasted little time in removing a potent point of attack for the Conservatives in recent years: the consumer carbon tax.

The Liberal government in Canada has ended the consumer carbon price immediately. This decision was made official during Prime Minister Mark Carney’s first cabinet meeting on Friday afternoon. Carney stated that people who have been getting a rebate on the carbon price will get one final payment for the next quarter in April.