# Professor Paul Romer shares his views on the impact of a carbon tax in Canada

1 Faculty News April 5, 2019 ![The Gobe and Mail logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/con_030719.jpg?itok=syM8EjNA)>

Excerpt from [The Globe and Mail](https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/toronto/article-the-carbon-tax-wont-punish-ordinary-canadians/) -- "We need to just say, ‘Look, we’re going to start to put a tax on this.’ And that will mean that the people who were thinking about using carbon-based fuels will ... have an incentive to switch, and others will have an incentive to discover new solutions."

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