Well to bbe fair , Trudeau needs the revenue to fund his lavish lifestyle .On April 1, the carbon tax will be set at $65 per metric tonne. We are slowly marching towards a carbon tax of $170 per metric tonne, by 2030, which is more than double what it is today.
Yet so far, not one study has looked at how the carbon tax will be impacting food affordability in Canada. Not one.
CHARLEBOIS: The hidden cost of carbon taxes in Canada — Toronto Sun
Not one study has looked at how the carbon tax will be impacting food affordabilityapple.news
Good Grief. F'ing Moonbats
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The more things change (for the elites), the more we see the same. Nothing shows your commitment to climate change like jetting across the country and lecturing others.
The intent is to make sure that politicians who enact climate emergency measures for residents are “walking the walk,” Fontaine said Wednesday.
Climate Change: New Westminster mulls public declaration of carbon footprint for elected officials — Vancouver Sun
Councillor Daniel Fontaine suggests voluntary declaration that tallies councillors' carbon emissions, such as how many plane trips they took or how they travelled to work.
Once again, that’s what Justin Trudeau is doing as he flies from Ottawa to Charlottetown and back, then on to Vancouver for a brief stop at an environmental conference before heading to two fundraisers.
It’s all good though, because Trudeau says the right words and backs a carbon tax even if it has done nothing to lowering Canada’s carbon emissions.
“We’re continuing to show leadership on climate,” Trudeau said this week.
He went on to say he’s coming up with solutions while Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre wants to cut the carbon tax that is helping drive up prices. He accused Poilievre of trying to instill fear in Canadians, as opposed to what Trudeau does when he attacks his opposition with false claims and his own brand of fear.
Maybe it’s the housing crisis. Maybe it’s the somewhat-related affordability crisis. Maybe it’s Canadians growing tired of a politician who takes just the right tone to say just the right thing but then never delivers or lives the exact opposite way of what he demands of the rest of us.For example, Trudeau flew to Victoria, B.C., to promote his government’s budget and push the need to lower carbon emissions. The next day he was doing the same in Edmonton, Alberta, and then on Wednesday, he was in Laval, Que.
Trudeau was just in British Columbia last week, for most of it he was on a family vacation but he was also taking meetings and working. If Trudeau were a man as concerned with climate change as he claims, as concerned with lowering his own emissions as he is lowering yours, he would have scheduled the $1,700 per person fundraiser on either side of his vacation.
Instead, he’s jetting across the country to collect money from donors where he will no doubt wax poetically about his efforts on climate change. Don’t let his brief appearance at the environmental conference fool you that he had to be in Vancouver on this date or that his presence is vital.
Trudeau is scheduled to deliver remarks at 4 p.m. (PT) before driving a few minutes up the street to the swanky Fairmont Hotel Vancouver for the first of two receptions listed on the Liberal website starting at 5 p.m. (PT).
Don’t worry, flying out to this event will expand Trudeau’s carbon footprint dramatically, but he supports a carbon tax, which doesn’t really matter. In it’s four years of existence, the carbon tax hasn’t lowered emissions, it’s just enriched government coffers.
As with before the carbon tax, the only time carbon emissions fall in a significant way is when economic activity falls. Canada saw a dramatic drop in carbon emissions in the 2008-09 period when the economy tanked and again in 2020 when the world shut down for COVID, but it is steadily rising again.
When politicians tell you to pay more so that emissions will drop and they don’t, when politicians tell you they will make housing and your life more affordable and they don’t, when those same politicians tell you they will run an ethical government and they don’t, eventually the public will catch on, or become tired of seeing you, as they do with all political leaders.
That’s where Justin Trudeau is right now, but whether he realizes that as he flies 40,000 feet above us from event to event is another question.It becomes difficult to believe Trudeau, to take him seriously when his words and actions are worlds apart. It’s almost like he believes there is one set of rules for people at the top like him and another for the rest of us.
LILLEY: Trudeau a climate hypocrite and his carbon footprint proves it
After flying to Victoria to discuss reducing emissions, Trudeau flew back across Canada to Montreal before zipping back to Whistler to ski.torontosun.com
Trudeau has always been a do as I say, not as I do politician, the difference now is that it might be catching up to him. The latest poll from Abacus Data has the Conservatives leading the Liberals nationally with 38% support to 26%.
EDITORIAL: Trudeau Liberals are gaslighting Canadians — Toronto Sun
The Trudeau government’s dog-eared playbook of calling opponents evil has reached the point of absurdity. Disagree with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s carbon tax and former environment minister Catherine McKenna will accuse you of being an “arsonist.” Object to their plan to bring in almost 1.5...
Poll after poll in the last several months has shown decreasing Liberal support to the point where Trudeau’s party doesn’t lead in voter support in a single region of the country. The Conservatives have a solid lead among men, have recently taken the lead among women and lead in every region except Quebec.
LILLEY: Trudeau's climate hypocrisy among many things annoying voters — Toronto Sun
Trudeau's polling numbers and voter support are falling, perhaps his utter climate hypocrisy has something to do with that.
That is like rubbing taxpayer's noses in his shit. Strangest is there are people that believe his bullshit.
On the United Nations’ official website for this month’s COP28 climate conference in Dubai, about four hours by plane from Gaza, the countdown is underway. At about the time this column was published, the official UN wait time for the opening of COP28 would have been 28 days, 12 hours, 39 minutes and 12 seconds.So….we’re coming up on COP27 soon…
While global greenhouse gas emissions continue to rise and Europe scrambles to find adequate supplies of natural gas — a fossil fuel — for winter, the United Nations is poised to hold yet another of its tone-deaf global gabfests on climate change.
From Nov. 6 to 18, 2,000 speakers and 35,000 participants are expected to pour into the tourist mecca of Sharm-el Sheikh in Egypt for what’s formally known as COP 27 — the 27th annual meeting of the UN’s Conference of the Parties, ostensibly to fight climate change.
GOLDSTEIN: Despite 27 years of failure, UN’s climate change circus rolls on — Toronto Sun
While global greenhouse gas emissions continue to rise and Europe scrambles to find adequate supplies of natural gas — a fossil fuel — for winter, the United Nations is poised to hold yet another of its tone-deaf global gabfests on climate change. From Nov. 6 to 18, 2,000 speakers and 35,000...
Federal Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault will lead the Canadian delegation on an issue that should be of no small concern to Canadian taxpayers, given that the Trudeau government has committed more than $100 billion to the cause to date.
At this year’s UN climate summit, developing countries will be making a major push for more financial reparations from developed nations like Canada, beyond the billions of dollars already committed, for the damage to their countries caused by climate change.
Their argument is that the vast majority of emissions affecting climate change have historically come from developed nations, etc…
In the real world, the UN’s top-down approach to addressing climate change is in shambles, marked by more than a quarter century of failures going back to the first COP conference in Berlin, Germany in 1995.
Russian President Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine has demonstrated how pointless emission targets set by the UN during these annual carbon dioxide-spewing treks to the world’s vacation hotspots are.
Putin’s cut of natural gas exports to Europe in retaliation for western sanctions imposed on Russia because of its invasion of Ukraine, has sent prices soaring as winter approaches, increasing the demand for natural gas to heat homes.
In addition, countries like Germany are firing up abandoned coal-powered energy plants — coal being the most carbon dioxide intensive fossil fuel when burned compared to natural gas which is the least intensive — to get through the winter with adequate supplies of electricity.
The UN’s approach to addressing climate change has become a textbook example of the definition of insanity — doing the same thing over and over again expecting different results.
These annual global gabfests with their giant carbon footprints and with global celebrities flying in on private jets to be seen as caring about the planet, send out the worst possible message when it comes to addressing climate change — hypocrisy.
It’s time they were scrapped. Someone needs to tell the UN about video conferencing.
Terence Corcoran: Real-world crises to beset COP28 climate confab — Financial Post
Carbon tax blunders, transition problems and wars will complicate matters at United Nations conference this month
Warfare is terribly polluting and adds tons and tonnes of carbon to the atmosphere.
Maybe we should outlaw it.
Maybe we should outlaw it.
Or just tax it, with annual increases on April 1st of each year, until it becomes an inescapable expense so that nations eventually can’t afford to fight wars, but intrudes into many of their other financial obligations….& just keep taxing it with further increases annually, perpetually….which will lead to prosperity and brotherhood for everybody?
Well, it’s that time of year again, and we’re not openly in a global pandemic this time around, where the rich & powerful all fly to a foreign land on their hundreds of private jets or sail their yachts, etc…so they can decide further policy for the peons and peasants to reduce their carbon footprint…
Typically, while countries negotiate toward largely toothless international agreements that set targets and standards for emissions reductions, they play up their domestic accomplishments to the tens of thousands of attendees – environmental activists, industrial lobbyists, bankers, celebrities – at the sprawling tradeshow-like event surrounding the formal talks.
What powerful leaders are attending COP28 – and why are they there?
From CEOs to presidents, billionaire investors to monarchs, celebrities to climate activists and advocates, spiritual leaders to indigenous leaders, these are the influential leaders attending the COP28 climate conference
sustainabilitymag.com
This year COP28 will take place in Dubai and is being hosted by Sultan Ahmed al-Jaber, a politician who serves as CEO of the UAE’s national oil company.
What is COP28? This year’s climate conference, explained — The Globe and Mail
This year’s climate conference in Dubai will include the first formal assessment of the countries’ progress towards the 2015 Paris Agreement targets
Why Canada’s recent climate-policy struggles may be its most valuable contribution to COP28 — The Globe and Mail
Between its carbon pricing carve-out and clashes with Prairie provinces, the Trudeau government has had a bad year on the climate file. But in Dubai, there’s a chance to turn those missteps into progress
COP28 Schedule & Agenda - Thematic Program - COP28 UAE
View the COP28 Schedule & Thematic Program and explore solutions for climate action, systemic transformations, global warming resilience, and finance.
What is Africa’s goal at COP28 as the climate summit begins?
At COP28, African countries are seeking to be equal players in talks often dominated by richer, western nations.
Tough to get the yachts into Winterpeg that time of year, they would have to dredge out the Red River much deeper to accommodate the larger ocean going vessels, create a harbour for them to park, all in an ecologically, friendly manner, etc…
Shouldn't there have been open water year round by 1998 on Lake Winnipeg?
Gimli Beach has a yacht club.
Didn’t they have a polar bear sighting there a couple years ago. Global warming polar bear I mean??
I heard it from a guy up at Split Lake MB yesterday.
(Organizing delivery of an RV from a Weyburn dealer. Last Cell service ends at Thompson…so my driver will check in with Split Lake from Thompson & if they haven’t seen him in 2&1/2hrs… then they will come looking for him.)
Sorry, Gilliam, not Gimli. My bad.
….anyway….Thursday’s moves by Ontario First Nations and Saskatchewan, which challenge Ottawa’s consumer carbon-pricing regime that took effect in 2019, coincide with the start of COP28, the global conference on climate change. A significant Canadian delegation will be at the summit in the United Arab Emirates.
First Nations in Ontario allege in court documents that Canada’s carbon-pricing regime leaves their communities worse off than others in the country, violating the principles of reconciliation as well as their constitutional rights.
“We don’t have any objection to climate action,” Abram Benedict, Grand Chief for the Mohawk Council of Akwesasne, said in an interview. “But we do have an objection to how this is being arbitrarily placed on our communities who are already in very difficult situations.”
The federal government has long argued that a majority of consumers recoup the costs of the carbon levy through an income-tax rebate. But many First Nations members living on reserves do not pay income tax and cannot access the rebates. This, the court document states, places an unfair burden on First Nations people.
(I would trade all the carbon tax rebate crumbs from the NDP/Libs in a Heartbeat for Income Tax Exception but that’s just me I guess)
First Nations administrations in Ontario receive a group rebate of 0.7 per cent of the carbon levy collected in the province, which the Chiefs of Ontario and Attawapiskat argue is not enough to offset what their members pay. Mr. Benedict, who oversees the environment portfolio for the Chiefs of Ontario, said First Nations should be reimbursed for EVERY dollar they spend on federal carbon pricing….& personally…I’m totally down for this….for everyone!!!
The federal government has argued that the purpose of putting a price on carbon is to influence behaviour, prompting consumers to make choices that will, in turn, reduce emissions….like not heating their homes in the winter, or not purchasing food or goods, or not going to work because that involves a commute, etc…viable behavioural modifying choices.
The court document, however, notes First Nations communities are often remote or short on infrastructure, leaving them without viable alternatives, such as access to cleaner-burning fuels or public transportation….like the rest of Canada outside of 1 million+ population centres that aren’t gifted with access to hydropower or existing nuclear capacity.
Totally get it! Try to exist in a Trudeau world in one of Canada’s two landlocked provinces. Seriously.
“Choices that are not available to be made are not in fact choices at all,” the court filing says, adding this leaves First Nations people exposed to escalating costs as carbon pricing increases.
Ontario First Nations file judicial review over federal carbon pricing, say climate can’t ‘be healed at the expense’ of communities — The Globe and Mail
The advocacy organization alleges that the carbon tax regime leaves their communities worse off after already facing hardship owing to climate change
I was thinking Yellowknife. It has a big airport and security is relatively simple.
The main problem I see with these get-togethers is they are all globalists, while most of us are nationalists to varying degrees.
I break mine down as follows: My community, My island, My province, Rest of Canada, Everyone else descending by distance.
There is no chance of a marriage between nationalists and globullists.
I break mine down as follows: My community, My island, My province, Rest of Canada, Everyone else descending by distance.
There is no chance of a marriage between nationalists and globullists.
You’re probably not talking about the end of the Honk-Honk Parking situation in Ottawa I’m assuming…so I’m guessing it was the event that took the attention off of that goat rodeo then?
Less Hot Tubs or Bouncy Castles, and more Russians, etc…?
Should be able to park at Churchill and take the high speed bullet train down to Winnipeg