April Fools!! Here's your Carbon Tax F#ckers!!!

[Ron in Regina]

Here's what Carney will replace the carbon tax with. Either way, you pay!

Liberal leadership contender Mark Carney has revealed his plan for ditching the carbon tax but it still means you pay more.

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(For Tec, “Here’s what Carney will replace the carbon tax with. Either way, you pay!”)

Canada’s Trump tariff nightmare is Mark Carney’s big opportunity to turn Canada into the climate Emerald City Carney’s always dreamed of. Good to know.

The bulk of Carney’s speech Friday was devoted to explaining to the crowd that the all the major issues that Canadians are facing are really wrapped into one big one — climate change.

According to Carney, addressing the problem of “helping hardworking families get ahead,” “boosting the competitiveness of Canadian companies,” and “building the strongest economy in the G7,” is all affected by “how Canadians play their part in addressing climate change.”

Carney then begins to make some confusing statements about whether or not the carbon tax was ever a good idea.

“Since Canada’s climate plan has become too divisive, it’s time for a new, more effective climate plan that everyone can get behind,” he said. “It’s a plan that makes our economy more competitive, it grows good jobs today, and it will grow better ones in the future. There are literally billions of dollars of investment on the table and millions of jobs at stake,” he continued.

It’s too bad Carney did not expand on the billions of investment dollars that are on the table and from whom, as I’m sure Canadians would like to know.

Terry Newman: Mark Carney's climate change theory of everything, including Trump — National Post

The Liberal leadership candidate says he has the solution to all of our problems

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(Carney conveniently failed to mention how the carbon tax indirectly increases the costs of all the goods that Canadians buy, and not just fuel, which is directly taxed. He side-steps that question completely in favour of the argument that Canadians should remain dependant upon a Liberal government who issues cheques, instead of simply having their day-to-day costs and taxes lowered)

On top of this, Canada was producing only 1.5 per cent of worldwide carbon emissions as of 2023. This suggests that the punitive carbon tax that Carney and the Liberal Party supported up until now was never fair to consumers given our national and global footprint.

Does Canada sound like a country that needs to base its entire economic system on climate change? Or, do Canadians, perhaps have more pressing concerns they want dealt with, like cost of living, lower taxes, health care, crime, and an ongoing opioid crisis?

 

[petros]

Here's what Carney will replace the carbon tax with. Either way, you pay!

Liberal leadership contender Mark Carney has revealed his plan for ditching the carbon tax but it still means you pay more.

www.youtube.com

(For Tec, “Here’s what Carney will replace the carbon tax with. Either way, you pay!”)

Canada’s Trump tariff nightmare is Mark Carney’s big opportunity to turn Canada into the climate Emerald City Carney’s always dreamed of. Good to know.

The bulk of Carney’s speech Friday was devoted to explaining to the crowd that the all the major issues that Canadians are facing are really wrapped into one big one — climate change.

According to Carney, addressing the problem of “helping hardworking families get ahead,” “boosting the competitiveness of Canadian companies,” and “building the strongest economy in the G7,” is all affected by “how Canadians play their part in addressing climate change.”

Carney then begins to make some confusing statements about whether or not the carbon tax was ever a good idea.

“Since Canada’s climate plan has become too divisive, it’s time for a new, more effective climate plan that everyone can get behind,” he said. “It’s a plan that makes our economy more competitive, it grows good jobs today, and it will grow better ones in the future. There are literally billions of dollars of investment on the table and millions of jobs at stake,” he continued.

It’s too bad Carney did not expand on the billions of investment dollars that are on the table and from whom, as I’m sure Canadians would like to know.

Terry Newman: Mark Carney's climate change theory of everything, including Trump — National Post

The Liberal leadership candidate says he has the solution to all of our problems

apple.news

(Carney conveniently failed to mention how the carbon tax indirectly increases the costs of all the goods that Canadians buy, and not just fuel, which is directly taxed. He side-steps that question completely in favour of the argument that Canadians should remain dependant upon a Liberal government who issues cheques, instead of simply having their day-to-day costs and taxes lowered)

On top of this, Canada was producing only 1.5 per cent of worldwide carbon emissions as of 2023. This suggests that the punitive carbon tax that Carney and the Liberal Party supported up until now was never fair to consumers given our national and global footprint.

Does Canada sound like a country that needs to base its entire economic system on climate change? Or, do Canadians, perhaps have more pressing concerns they want dealt with, like cost of living, lower taxes, health care, crime, and an ongoing opioid crisis?

Good thing Libs will be far from being opposition.

 

[Retired_Can_Soldier]

Were Rubes.

 

[Ron in Regina]

Good thing Libs will be far from being opposition.

With Trudeau actually stepping down, if he actually steps down, the odds of the Liberals becoming the official opposition will go up.
So far Trudeau has only announced his intention to step down at a future date after the Liberals select a new Leader, while parliament is put on hold.

 

[Ron in Regina]

Anywho, Mark Carney & the Carbon Tax(‘s). On Friday, Carney told enthralled Liberals as he announced his “new” climate change plan, “I’m not a politician. I’m becoming a politician, but I’m not a politician,” apparently unaware that this is exactly how politicians talk – in doubletalk.

Warming to his theme, he continued, “because I’m not a politician I don’t like press releases that are dressed up as policies” – even though the press release he put out accompanying his policy reversal on the carbon tax was literally a press release dressed up as a policy.

While loaded with aspirational language, it contained no data on Carney’s timelines for reducing industrial greenhouse gases, nothing about targets, nothing about costs, stating only that, “in the coming weeks we will outline major additional economic measures to strengthen the economy and ensure households are immediately better off, following the removal of the (carbon tax) rebate.”

Carney, like Trudeau in 2019 when he brought in the Liberals’ carbon tax, continues to insist there’s some magical formula out there – maybe it’s hidden in Never-Never Land or Narnia – in which the added, new cost of paying for industrial greenhouse gas emissions doesn’t end up being paid by the public, either in higher taxes or higher prices on consumer goods created using fossil fuel energy.

To the contrary, in this Never Never Land – insist both Trudeau and Carney – “big polluters” responsible for emissions don’t pass along their added costs imposed by government to the public?

GOLDSTEIN: Why we can’t trust the Liberal reversal on carbon taxes — Toronto Sun

Even as the federal Liberals seemingly abandon the carbon tax, they refuse to admit they were wrong to introduce it

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This is similar to the logic of federal, provincial and municipal governments which ignore the cumulative costs they are imposing on Canadians, ostensibly to “fight climate change,” refusing to acknowledge the inescapable reality that in the end, there is only one taxpayer.

In blaming Poilievre for the failure of the Liberals’ carbon tax debacle, Carney is implicitly blaming Canadians for falling for what he describes as Poilievre’s “lies.” So, Daddy Carney knows best & if you don’t believe what he believes, you’re a misogynistic hick with unacceptable views? That sounds sooo familiar for some reason…
This in turn, so this logic goes, prevented the Liberals’ from implementing their grand scheme to reduce emissions, even though that scheme has failed to reduce them to anywhere near the fantastical targets promised by the Liberals in a government that has never met a single emission target it has set for itself.

The underlying political philosophy of both Carney and Trudeau on this issue was perfectly explained three decades ago in the seminal work of the great American conservative thinker Thomas Sowell, who described the prevailing liberal vision of our time in his book, The Vision of the Anointed, Self-Congratulation as a Basis for Social Policy.

Followers of the vision, Sowell explained, consider themselves on a higher moral plane than their opponents, whom they consider not only wrong but motivated by evil intentions and that “problems exist because others are not as wise or as virtuous as the anointed.”

No matter how many times the end result of their visions are contradicted by real-world evidence.