Despite flip-flopping on the idea, it's hard to imagine our environment minister has ever seen a carbon tax he didn't like

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International organizations are drooling over the prospect of global carbon taxes — and, depending on the day, so is our environment minister.

“We are very supportive of the discussions that are happening at the International Marine Organization to put in place some kind of levy on international marine transportation,” Steven Guilbeault said at this year’s United Nations climate conference in Baku, Azerbaijan.

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Days later, Guilbeault seemed to reverse course, tweeting that the “government has not supported any such international levy.”

So which one is it? After hitting Canadians with a carbon tax on fuel, an industrial carbon tax and a de facto carbon tax buried in the clean fuel regulations, has Guilbeault finally found a carbon tax he doesn’t love at first sight?

While Guilbeault is figuring that out, here’s what international organizations are saying.

The United Nation’s International Marine Organization wants “a maritime GHG emissions pricing........

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