Federal green schemes will harm consumer
If you want to know what harm federal green energy schemes could bring to Canada, just look at the headlines in Ontario.
On Sunday, new hydro rates came into effect in Ontario and, as the Toronto Sun reported, “once all the adding and subtracting is completed, the typical Ontario family can expect to be out at least $170 more next year based on these changes.”
For families just getting by, life just got a little harder. How did this happen? To make a long story short, government meddling has jacked up the prices in Canada’s most populous province. A lot of this meddling came in the form of green energy experiments.
It's credited with driving hundreds of thousands of manufacturing jobs out of the province and taking more out of people’s pockets. It’s a classic case of big government hurting the little guy.
The federal government isn’t responsible for energy like the provinces are, but incoming prime minister Justin Trudeau has already made some green pledges.
He’s planning to work with the provinces to implement some form of carbon pricing across the country. This will have a trickle down effect on the consumer, without a doubt.
As Lorrie Goldstein noted in a column this past summer, “many products today are made from fossil fuels and their prices to consumers will increase as well.”
Plus a third of Trudeau’s record-setting infrastructure pledge is actually going to be spent on “green” infrastructure. While he’s identified a few public transit projects the Liberal government intends to support, the “green” projects are anyone’s guess.
The Liberals could even get behind provincial ventures the likes of which paved the way for Ontario’s energy poverty.
Don’t be surprised. After all, as columnist Anthony Furey recently noted, Wynne is Trudeau’s “political godmother” and the two are “tied at the hip”, at least when it comes to political ideology.
Factor in that Trudeau’s lead advisor, Gerald Butts, was a key part of former premier Dalton McGuinty’s team and it’s hard to see how the new Liberal government won’t indulge in green schemes.
Trudeau ran on a pledge to boost the lot of the middle-class. It’s a good mission and one the voters support him in. But that’s not the direction green schemes will take us.
Hold on to your wallets, Canada.
source: Federal green schemes will harm consumer | EDITORIAL | Editorial | Opinion | Tor
If you want to know what harm federal green energy schemes could bring to Canada, just look at the headlines in Ontario.
On Sunday, new hydro rates came into effect in Ontario and, as the Toronto Sun reported, “once all the adding and subtracting is completed, the typical Ontario family can expect to be out at least $170 more next year based on these changes.”
For families just getting by, life just got a little harder. How did this happen? To make a long story short, government meddling has jacked up the prices in Canada’s most populous province. A lot of this meddling came in the form of green energy experiments.
It's credited with driving hundreds of thousands of manufacturing jobs out of the province and taking more out of people’s pockets. It’s a classic case of big government hurting the little guy.
The federal government isn’t responsible for energy like the provinces are, but incoming prime minister Justin Trudeau has already made some green pledges.
He’s planning to work with the provinces to implement some form of carbon pricing across the country. This will have a trickle down effect on the consumer, without a doubt.
As Lorrie Goldstein noted in a column this past summer, “many products today are made from fossil fuels and their prices to consumers will increase as well.”
Plus a third of Trudeau’s record-setting infrastructure pledge is actually going to be spent on “green” infrastructure. While he’s identified a few public transit projects the Liberal government intends to support, the “green” projects are anyone’s guess.
The Liberals could even get behind provincial ventures the likes of which paved the way for Ontario’s energy poverty.
Don’t be surprised. After all, as columnist Anthony Furey recently noted, Wynne is Trudeau’s “political godmother” and the two are “tied at the hip”, at least when it comes to political ideology.
Factor in that Trudeau’s lead advisor, Gerald Butts, was a key part of former premier Dalton McGuinty’s team and it’s hard to see how the new Liberal government won’t indulge in green schemes.
Trudeau ran on a pledge to boost the lot of the middle-class. It’s a good mission and one the voters support him in. But that’s not the direction green schemes will take us.
Hold on to your wallets, Canada.
source: Federal green schemes will harm consumer | EDITORIAL | Editorial | Opinion | Tor
