The Canadian Taxpayers Federation has made a swift call for new federal Liberal leader and prime minister-designate Mark Carney to make good on his promise to eliminate the consumer carbon tax.

Carney won his party’s leadership in a landslide on Sunday.

He has said he will eliminate the carbon tax, as well as changes to the capital gains tax.

Kris Sims, the Alberta director of the Canadian Taxpayers Federation, says Carney must make good on his carbon tax promise “immediately.”

He says that is a change that needs no legislative amendments, and can be done even while Parliament is prorogued.

Sims is calling for the tax to be eliminated before the next scheduled increase on April 1st, adding Canadians “cannot afford to pay this carbon tax for a minute longer.”