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

Carney says people who have been getting a rebate on the carbon price will get one final payment for the next quarter in April.

Prime Minister-designate Mark Carney, a Liberal who will replace Justin Trudeau on Friday, has said he plans to abolish a carbon pricing system that many residents have paid since 2019 on fossil fuel products, including gasoline, diesel and natural gas.

B.C. Premier David Eby says his government is drafting legislation to scrap the province's consumer carbon tax following a promise from Prime Minister Mark Carney to do the same.

The Liberal government is immediately ending the consumer carbon price and made the change official during Prime Minister Mark Carney's first cabinet meeting this afternoon.