Few Lower Mainland taxpayers will be crying themselves to sleep at the loss of AirCare, which the B.C. Government announced yesterday will be scrapped for car and light truck drivers.

AirCare had been reduced over the past several years, recognizing the fact that carmakers had greatly improved their emissions standards. New cars were now exempt for seven years from testing, but once past that threshold still had to shell out $46 every two years to get checked.

AirCare supporters laud the program as improving air quality in Greater Vancouver, but how much credit should actually go to the program is highly debatable. The truth is carmakers did the bulk of the work and air quality across Canada—with or without AirCare—greatly improved.

But hey, we taxpayers shouldn’t look a gift horse in the mouth. This is an actual, tangible tax cut for drivers—maybe the first such break in decades.