April Fools Day again. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is defending the appointment of senior Liberal cabinet minister Dominic LeBlanc's sister-in-law as Canada's interim ethics commissioner. That’s a real news story & not from the Beaverton. Really…
Anyway, April 1st is here again:
“Most households will see a net loss, paying more in fuel charges and GST, as well as receiving lower incomes, compared to the Climate Action Incentive payments they receive,”
a report from the Parliamentary Budget Office released this week said.
It’s the second time the non-partisan PBO has said most families don’t get back more than they pay in carbon taxes and the Trudeau government continues to ignore the PBO and repeat their lie.
Unlike the government analysis, the PBO looks at the increased GST costs each of us will pay, the GST is charged ON TOP OF the carbon tax. They also look at the lower incomes Canadians will receive, the lost investment in this country meaning fewer jobs and the overall economic impact.
According to the PBO, by 2030 when the carbon tax is fully implemented, the total cost to households after rebates will be significant. In Newfoundland and Labrador middle income households will pay $680 more annually after rebates, $929 in Saskatchewan, $1,028 in Manitoba, $1,118 in PEI, $1,127 in Nova Scotia, $1,269 in Ontario and $1,460 in Alberta.
Households with higher incomes will pay as much as $9,000 a year in carbon tax outcomes.
But Trudeau will keep claiming that people get back more than they pay and too many in the media will repeat that mantra without fact checking it.
The claim that the carbon tax is revenue neutral was always a claim about what the government would take in, not what you would pay. The PBO has shown the average family will pay more starting April 1.
The CTF estimates this year’s pay raise will range from an extra $5,100 for a backbench MP to an extra $10,200 for the prime minister, based on
contract data published by the federal government. This will be the fourth MP pay raise since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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The Canadian Taxpayers Federation is releasing a Leger poll showing four out of five Canadians oppose the pay hike members of Parliament are taking on April 1. At the same time, taxpayers are calling on Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland to stop the carbon tax and alcohol tax hikes that are also...
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