Cities need consistent funding to adapt to climate disastersPrograms 'yanked' awayPhoto: Castanet The impact of heat domes, sweltering B.C. lost their only source of steady funding when the provincial NDP government canceled the Local Government Climate Action Program in April 2026. The province canceled the consumer carbon tax (industrial emitters are still paying via the Output-Based Pricing System) because people felt they were paying too much for gasoline at the pumps. The bump in gas prices will depress carbon emissions, much like the carbon tax, but there are two sets of losers. First, lawmakers anticipated the carbon tax was regressive—it was a larger portion of poor people’s budgets.