Ottawa to return $623 million to small businesses in rebate payments
Advertisement
Read this article for free:
or
Already have an account? Log in here »
To continue reading, please subscribe:
Monthly Digital Subscription
$0 for the first 4 weeks*
- Enjoy unlimited reading on winnipegfreepress.com
- Read the E-Edition, our digital replica newspaper
- Access News Break, our award-winning app
- Play interactive puzzles
*No charge for 4 weeks then price increases to the regular rate of $19.00 plus GST every four weeks. Offer available to new and qualified returning subscribers only. Cancel any time.
Monthly Digital Subscription
$4.75/week*
- Enjoy unlimited reading on winnipegfreepress.com
- Read the E-Edition, our digital replica newspaper
- Access News Break, our award-winning app
- Play interactive puzzles
*Billed as $19 plus GST every four weeks. Cancel any time.
To continue reading, please subscribe:
Add Free Press access to your Brandon Sun subscription for only an additional
$1 for the first 4 weeks*
*Your next subscription payment will increase by $1.00 and you will be charged $16.99 plus GST for four weeks. After four weeks, your payment will increase to $23.99 plus GST every four weeks.
Read unlimited articles for free today:
or
Already have an account? Log in here »
OTTAWA – More than 600,000 small businesses will share $623 million in carbon price rebate payments before the end of the year, the final payment they will receive following the end of the consumer carbon price last spring.
The payments are the second rebates issued to businesses under the carbon pricing program, after an initial plan to return the revenues through energy efficiency retrofit programs fell flat.
Payments close to $2.5 billion were issued last December to 600,000 small- and medium-sized businesses for the fuel charge for the first five years of the program.
This December, will be the final payment, for money collected under the program between April 2024 and April 2025.
The Canadian Federation of Independent Business welcomed the latest move, saying the payments will be divided by province and be based on the number of employees each company has.
But it is pushing Ottawa to pass legislation to make sure the rebates are not taxed.
This report by The Canadian Press was first published Nov. 14, 2025.