A very special musical interlude for a very special almost-quitter.
This song was meant for Justin (not safe for the office or some such thing):
Canadian content but just as apt:
Does anyone remember the 16 tons of personal protective equipment Justin handed to his Chinese bosses?
I do:
Conservative leadership candidate Jean Charest has pledged to implement a “low carbon fuel standard” – a policy that would tax the excess carbon emissions from fossil fuels.
In Charest’s environmental plan, Charest opposes the Trudeau government’s consumer carbon tax but pledges to “replace it with an industrial carbon price to slash emissions while giving provinces the flexibility to choose their path to emission reductions.”
It doesn’t matter. All costs will be paid by consumers. They think we’re stupid.
Former federal environment minister Catherine McKenna famously said the Liberals know “if you actually say it louder, we’ve learned in the House of Commons, if you repeat it, if you say it louder, if that is your talking point, people will totally believe it.”
Current Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault clearly believes in this approach as he keeps insisting 80% of households paying Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s carbon tax end up better off financially because of carbon tax rebates.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s second carbon tax — known as the Clean Fuel Standard — is the latest example of how his energy policies are drifting further away from reality, while punishing Canadians financially in the process.
Article content
Starting next year, Trudeau’s Clean Fuel Standard alone, according to an impact analysis done by the federal government itself, will raise the price of gasoline by six to 13 cents per litre and the price of diesel fuel by seven to 16 cents per litre by 2030.
Trudeau: I can't do anything about gas prices. It's a world wide issue
Trudeau: I can't help our airports. It's a world wide issue.
Trudeau: I can't help with inflation. It's a world wide issue.Trudeau: I CAN STOP CLIMATE CHANGE!
— G.M. Forbes (@gmforbes35) July 2, 2022
Canada’s big oil companies are making record profits this year and should be using some of that extra cash to invest in things that curb their greenhouse gas emissions, Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault said Thursday.
Recent calls for Ottawa to scrap its planned April 1 carbon price hike could easily be viewed as opportunistic attempts from opponents to turn back the clock on government fossil-fuel measures. Or cynical appeals to segments of the electorate who question the value of carbon taxation. Or self-serving lobbying from business interests who have a knee-jerk objection to any tax increase.
Which all could be true. But delaying the increase could also be a very good, very practical idea – one that even the supporters of the federal carbon tax should embrace.
The price of everything is rising. Canadians are feeling the pressure. For low-income Canadians, things are getting more difficult than ever. Food bank usage, to offer just one example, is sadly on the rise.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is scandalously planning to making this worse. Let us explain.
As the pricing increases, lower income households should continue to receive rebates, but middle- and upper-class households should be expecting to pay hundreds, if not thousands.
On April 1, 2022, the carbon tax is set to rise from $40 a tonne to $50 a tonne.
The increase will take place amid surging inflation.
In 2018, an Ekos Research Poll reported that less than 50% of Canadians identify as members of the middle class — a steep drop from nearly 70% in 2002.
“The whole notion of a middle-class dream — I work hard, build a better mousetrap, do better than my parents, my kids do better than me, I get a house, a car, retire in comfort — that has all been shattered.”
That was then, and this is now. The Canadian middle class is shrinking. A distinction between mainstream media and Cultural Action Party theory lies in the balance. For us, the transformation is intentional. It is a systemic “hollowing out” of Canada’s middle class.
‘Putting a price on pollution is the most efficient and powerful way to keep 1.5 C alive,’ Trudeau says.
As Justin Trudeau’s government seeks to “decarbonize” Canadian industry, the Liberals are advancing what they call a “just transition” devoted to “helping workers and communities thrive in a net-zero carbon economy.” While it sounds noble, it’s an initiative based on the idea of phasing out jobs in Canada’s oil and gas sector. Moreover, it neglects to recognize the work being done by the energy industry, such as investing in carbon capture and storage, which reduce emissions without punitive carbon taxes.
As Canadians are facing unprecedented spikes in the price of gasoline at the pump, Ontario Premier Doug Ford told reporters that the carbon tax will only compound the high prices even further.
Erin O’Toole appears open to letting provinces decide whether they want to be part of the Conservative carbon pricing plan or stick with the Liberal one.
The Tory leader has faced criticism from within his own tent for promising a Conservative carbon price on fuel after campaigning during his leadership race to scrap the plan introduced by the Liberals.
O’Toole has said that under his system, the money consumers spend on gas would be sent to personal savings accounts they could then use to make green purchases.
Technocrats are preparing “mandatory” personal carbon allowances that would introduce rationing into every area of your life via an app that would record your travel, heating expenses and even the food you eat.
h/t Mauser98
