P.E.I. mostly ready to embrace carbon pricing: poll

Prince Edward Islanders are the most willing in the country to accept some kind of price on carbon, according to a national poll released Monday.

Two-thirds of people surveyed on P.E.I. strongly approved or somewhat approved of the federal government's plans on carbon pricing.

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P.E.I.'s results were similar to those in B.C., where a carbon tax is already in place. It is much higher than the national average, which sits at 51 per cent.

Sixty-five per cent of Islanders surveyed think the province should implement its own tax, rather than have Ottawa impose one in 2018.

With a relatively large number of those surveyed undecided, P.E.I. also had the smallest number of people polled either strongly or somewhat opposed to the federal government's plan.

The Mainstreet poll reached 302 Islanders by landline and cellphoneon Oct. 5 and 6. For comparison purposes only, a probability sample of this size in P.E.I. would yield a margin of error of almost 6 per cent, nineteen times out of twenty.

The poll was commissioned by Postmedia and conducted by Mainstreet.

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