If Canadians are already finding prices at the gas pump high, things will get more expensive after a “second carbon tax” hits in 2025, on top of the carbon tax hike in April, warns a consumer advocate.
Ottawa’s Clean Fuel Regulations (CFR) were introduced in July 2023, and are expected to impact Quebec, Ontario, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and Alberta in 2025.
The world wants to invest in Canada.
We have abundant natural resources and a young and educated workforce. Infrastructure is decent enough to ensure the timely flow of goods. And when there is a dispute between signatories in a contract, the courts are predictable, equitable and honest.
When did it become ‘far-right’ to support European farmers who are fighting for their livelihoods and rural communities? If we were to believe the mainstream media coverage of the farmers’ protests, we might expect to see them marching through Berlin or Paris in jackboots rather than their working bottes en caoutchouc (Wellingtons to us Brits).
The ‘far-right’ political libel against hard-pressed farmers is really a sign of how far the EU elites have lost touch with the reality of life for the peoples of Europe. We should ignore the slurs, and get behind the fighting farmers.
Americans were sold the promise that electric vehicles would bring production companies and an influx of jobs to small towns nationwide as part of a modern day goldrush.
However, as interest in EVs has slipped, lithium and nickel facilities – metals used in lithium-ion batteries for electric vehicles – are taking cost-cutting measures including mass layoffs and suspending operations.
The demand for electric vehicles surged in 2022, rising by 76 percent in April of that year, but by the end of 2023, the number of vehicles sold dropped to 50 percent.
In Poland, farmers pelted the European Union building with eggs.
In Belgium, hundreds of tractors blockaded one of the continent’s busiest ports.
“I’m a small farmer, I’m 18 years old, and I don’t know how life will turn out for me later on,” said Mattia Buzzone, a Sicilian farmer, at a protest in Rome, Italy.
In recent years, governments are increasingly turning to a particular tool to deal with things they don’t like: the ban.
Depending on which way one leans, one may agree or disagree with a prohibition. But the practice itself is dangerous because it is an inevitable slippery slope. Once the public acquiesces to a ban or other sort of restriction, further bans are sure to follow. This was the fate of the smoking ban, which first limited cigarette smoking to outdoor areas, and has since escalated in countries like New Zealand to a permanent lifetime ban on any tobacco products for citizens born after 2009, regardless of age. This is an affront to economic freedom and consumer sovereignty.
In the past few weeks European farmers have taken to the streets of their capitals to advertise a rebellious mood that few expected to see.
Having enjoyed a comfortable life for decades, thanks to subsidies from their respective governments and the European Union’s Common Agricultural Policy (CAP), they were not expected to invade the grand capitals, together with their sheep, cows and tractors, with a litany of woes.
The question of food security was first raised after World War II as a top priority for Western European nations as they tried to rebuild their shattered economies.
We are living through one of history’s longest and most excruciating versions of “We told you so.” When in March 2020, the world’s government decided to “shut down” the world’s economies and throttle any and all social activity, and deny kids schooling plus cancel worship services and holidays, there was no end to the warnings of the terrible collateral damage, even if most of them were censored.
Every bit of the warnings proved true. You see it in every story in the news. It’s behind every headline. It’s in countless family tragedies. It’s in the loss of trust. It’s in the upheaval in industry and demographics. The fingerprints of lockdowns are deeply embedded in every aspect of our lives, in ways obvious and not so much.
h/t YH
Had enough of advocates for green energy technology who promise the sun and the moon in terms of efficiency and cost savings only to have this new tech crap out the moment it’s needed most?
Fed up with an armada of state-of-the-art electric buses where none of the buses work nearly as well as promised and at least half of them are broken down in the garage at any given time?
Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault, even by his own insufferable standards, had quite a week. It was as rough as the road network that he knows all too well as a Montreal MP.
Addressing a group of transit advocates on Monday, Guilbeault felt himself amongst fellow radicals and announced that the Trudeau government “has made the decision to stop investing at the federal level in new road infrastructure” because “the analysis we have done is that the network is perfectly adequate to respond to the needs we have.”
The federal government is ruling out any future pauses or exemptions to the carbon price, despite still-high inflation numbers contributing to the cost of living, according to Government House Leader Steven MacKinnon.
On Tuesday, the federal government announced a rebrand of its highly controversial carbon-pricing program(opens in a new tab), changing the name of the quarterly rebate from the Climate Action Incentive Payment to the Canada Carbon Rebate.
The federal Conservatives LOVE Steven Guilbeault.
No, I haven’t got that wrong. I don’t mean Guilbeault is loved by his own Liberals.
WHOA, DAWG.
That sound you hear is the beginning of the implosion of the Climate Action 100 group, a cabal of some of the largest investment firms on Earth. They are dedicated to enforcing and monitoring the companies they invest in to force them to focus on and execute strategies to achieve the climate cult’s greenhouse gas goals. In other words, if you don’t follow the Green initiative dictates for carbon reduction, etc you don’t receive your financing from these people.
It’s absurd that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and the Liberals believe that rebranding their “climate action incentive payments” as “Canada carbon rebates” is what’s needed to fix their carbon tax.
Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault is desperately trying to recharacterize his own words since he let his mask slip with candid comments about road infrastructure and electric vehicles.
There is no getting around it. Guilbeault was pretty clear when he told attendees at a fundraising luncheon: “Our government has made the decision to stop investing in new road infrastructure. There will be no more envelopes from the federal government to enlarge the road network,” and “We can very well achieve our goals of economic, social, and human development without more enlargement of the road network.”
How else are we to interpret what the minister said?
