“Net-Zero Tyranny”

Ottawa has committed to spending $200 billion to fight climate change, but some economists say it may not be taxpayer money well spent.

The federal government announced earlier this year clean energy investment tax credits worth more than $60 billion. Combined with the billions in subsidies for the electric vehicle industry and many other clean energy initiatives, the final tally is approximately $200 billion, Environment Minister Steve Guilbeault said.

The past couple of years, I’ve become familiar with the Pokemon trading card market. That’s because my children started playing the game, learned the value of different cards, and got involved in the buying and selling of them.

It’s quite something to think that a little piece of paper with the picture of a cartoon character on it can go for $75. Or, in exceptional cases, hundreds of thousands of dollars.

A new survey has found that Canadians are feeling slightly more confident in the carbon tax’s effectiveness at combatting climate change than they were a few months ago—but uncertainty is still high.

Nanos Research surveyed more than 1,000 Canadians between Nov. 30 and Dec. 2 to gain a picture of their current views on the carbon tax.

Canada’s newest premier says that in an ideal world, Ottawa would provide his territory with a blanket exemption from the carbon tax.

“I mean, ideally, a complete exemption for the territory is what we would hope for,” said R.J. Simpson, chosen this week as premier of the Northwest Territories, in an interview Sunday on Rosemary Barton Live.

“The costs are already high — higher costs are not the solution up here.”

Every major United Nations conference on climate change ends the same way – with absurd political hype over adopting meaningless catch phrases and setting imaginary goals that its 195 member nations will then fail to achieve.

Well, there you have it, folks. The hulking leviathan that is Canada’s climate regime is set to grow one size bigger next year with the addition of a cap-and-trade system to loom over the oil and gas industry.

The plan: cut the sector’s emissions by 35 to 38 per cent below 2019 levels by 2030 — without cutting production. Liberal members of government at Thursday’s announcement of the scheme would have you believe this is achievable, in the same way a miracle diet might promise extreme weight loss without cutting calorie intake.

Has there ever been a more out-of-touch federal government than the Trudeau Liberals?

Their wobbly perception caught up to them this week in Dubai, host of latest world climate conference. There in the capital of the oil-rich United Arab Emirates, economic and political reality crashed into alarmist fantasies, not to mention the laughable schemes of Trudeau’s most zealous climate activist, Environment Minister Steve Guilbeault.

The dark days of the 1980s National Energy Program (NEP) are back.

Not since Pierre Trudeau’s massive cash grab of oil-and-gas revenues and power grab for constitutional jurisdiction, has Ottawa so blatantly singled out one province and one industry for attack.