Michael Bastasch | Energy Editor
- Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s carbon tax went into effect in four Canadian provinces Monday.
- Canadian drivers raced to the pumps Sunday to fill up their tanks before gas prices spiked 12 cents per gallon.
- Ontario Premier Doug Ford and other conservatives oppose the carbon tax.
Canadian drivers raced to gas stations to fill up their tanks Sunday before the Trudeau administration’s carbon tax went into effect at midnight and raised prices at the pump roughly 12 cents per gallon.
The carbon tax went into effect Monday in four Canadian provinces resisting Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s climate change agenda. Canadians in Ontario, Manitoba, New Brunswick and Saskatchewan will see fuel prices increase.
Ontario Premier Doug Ford, who won a landslide election in 2018 opposing a carbon tax, urged residents to head to the pumps before Trudeau’s carbon tax went into effect. Ford joined other conservative premiers in a challenging the carbon tax in court.
“Make no mistake, the carbon tax is the worst tax ever,” Ford said as he filled up his car in a video posted to social media Sunday. “It will make everything more expensive!”
Today's the last day to fill your gas tank before the federal carbon tax makes life more expensive for your family.
Starting April 1, gas will go up almost 4.5¢ /L, which will grow to 11¢ /L by 2022.
We'll keep fighting to stop this terrible tax with every tool at our disposal. pic.twitter.com/tiQhW9OqcH
— Doug Ford (@fordnation) March 31, 2019
Conservative members of Ontario’s parliament also posted photos and videos of themselves filling up on gas before the federal carbon tax went into effect Monday. Lawmakers also posted photos of Ontario residents filling up on gas late at night, just hours before the carbon tax took effect.
Even at 11pm, many drivers in #MississaugaLakeshore are out filling up their gas tanks. There’s just one more hour until Trudeau’s carbon tax makes gas (and everything else) more expensive. Premier @fordnation is fighting this tax in every way we can, #ForThePeople. #onpoli pic.twitter.com/lj3QwRUQ0u
— Rudy Cuzzetto, MPP (@RudyCuzzetto) April 1, 2019
Many people are FILLING UP even late tonight! It's the last day to fill up your gas tank before the federal carbon tax makes life more expensive for all of us.
Starting April 1st, gas will go up almost 4.5¢ /L, which will grow to 11¢ /L by 2022. pic.twitter.com/HSUt9h5eZR
— Andrea Khanjin (@Andrea_Khanjin) April 1, 2019
The carbon tax is part of Trudeau’s plan to cut Canada’s carbon footprint in line with the Paris climate accord. Trudeau’s plan calls for levying a federal carbon tax on Canadian provinces that don’t already price emissions.
Ontario previously had a cap-and-trade program, but it was scrapped by Ford’s conservative coalition last year. With his 2018 election victory, Ford joined the growing ranks of premiers opposed to the federal carbon tax.
Trudeau’s carbon tax starts at $15 per metric ton of carbon dioxide, which is equivalent to a 12 cents per gallon gasoline tax. The carbon tax will rise every year, hitting $37 per ton of emissions by 2022. (RELATED: REPORT: Trump Is Preparing To Issue More Executive Orders Propping Up Pipelines)
Most of the $1.7 billion in revenue the carbon tax is expected to generate this year will be sent back to households as a rebate for higher energy prices. Proponents say carbon tax payments for many families will actually outweigh energy price increases.
Despite the rebates, drivers sat in lines Sunday waiting to fill up before the carbon tax hit. Heating bills and airline ticket prices will also rise due to the carbon tax.
Critics say the carbon tax will hit small businesses the hardest since offsets for higher energy prices are skewed towards households. Though, economists don’t expect the carbon tax to affect economic growth much in the near-term.
Alberta, British Columbia and Quebec already price carbon dioxide emissions, thus aren’t affected by the federal tax. However, Alberta seems likely to elect a new premier who will scrap the provinces climate taxes, meaning Trudeau’s carbon tax could extend there in the near future.
Meanwhile, back at the ranch, China is opening a new coal fired power station every week. So anything Canada does, is no better that peeeing into the wind….
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I very much doubt that it is legal for the federal government to place a tax on some provinces and not others.
Otherwise Quebec could implement its own gst and tell the feds to get lost.
If the supreme court sides with the feds a new round of separatism is likely with provinces graving federal taxation powers.
I’m still amazed that the lie has got so big that you can implement an increase by a month in the time that snow tires have to be used in BC due to the increased expectation for snow, and a carbon tax to fight warming, on the same day–and it attracts no ‘Hey, wait a damn minute here’ reaction in the media, only useful-idiot compliance. That’s just the wildest April Fool’s joke I can imagine, and look at how many fools there now are.
Fully agree, Robert. Max and his PPC have my vote, too. The only party in Canada that is right on CO2 and AGW. Moreover, he’s not so freaky socially conservative as many in the CPC.
The idea with this kind of tax is to encourage people to use less fuel. This assumes that most people currently have excess/luxury usage that they can cut, but has someone here already noted, that is not the case. The vast majority of energy use is required and can’t be reduced. The other problem with this tax scheme is that they claim they are going to rebate it back to the tax payers. Putting aside the problem that some will get more back than they paid and other less, this lessens the net cost of the tax on the consumer and thus reduces their incentive to curb their energy use. As far as I can tell, the entire exercise is one of virtue signaling on a grand scale, which also happens to enlarge and enrich the government. All at the Canadian people’s expense. Doh!
Almost everything people eat, wear, buy or own spends some of its time on a truck.
Rise the price of moving that truck, and almost everything people eat, wear, buy or own will rise in price.
Socialism 101…
Report on climate change shows Canada warming at twice the rate of rest of world
Marjorie Shepherd, director of the climate-research division at Environment Canada, said that warming is not uniform and some regions are warming more than others, and that on average, since records became available in 1948, temperatures in Canada have increased by 1.7 degrees. Annual average temperature over Northern Canada increased by 2.3 C since 1948.
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-report-on-climate-change-shows-canada-warming-at-twice-the-rate-of/
Meanwhile. Calgary and Edmonton had their coldest Februarys since the Great Depression and Banff had its coldest February on record based on 131 years of temperature data.
https://www.thestar.com/calgary/2019/03/01/alberta-hasnt-seen-a-february-this-cold-since-the-great-depression.html
You can see the white “cherry blossoms” in the distance of this Banff webcam. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9HwSNgcdQ7k
Vancouver also had its coldest February on record this year.
BTW, A surprising number of Canadians on WUWT!
–Bad News
A few years ago Canada began a gun registration/confiscation program to reduce gun violence, which was less than a weekend in Chicago. Now to stop glow-bull warming the Canadians are going to be taxed into poverty to save the planet from CO2, although their contribution is minimal.
We got rid of the long gun registry, we’ll get rid of the carbon tax too. Just remember to vote Conservative.
Yeah, but Trudeau is reintroducing the registry by the back door, with all future sales and transfers being registered if the bill passes before the election. The Conservatives, I believe, have said they’ll repeal the law as soon as they’re elected, but it will stay if Trudeau wins again; and, once he has a few years of backdoor registration, you can be sure he’ll start confiscation.
Correction, GoreBull warming…
“Proponents say carbon tax payments for many families will actually outweigh energy price increases”
So, they agree that energy prices will increase. And who actually believes that the revenue will be returned to people? After it goes through the labyrinth of big government bureaucracy, the return will be pennies on the dollar.
Dancing Justin has just introduced where socialist governments always go; to a tyrannical despotic central government.
The Provinces should secede and immediately deny tax incomes to Canada’s new premier despot, Trudeau.
Yall can join the U.S.
Just don’t bring BC or Quebec with you.
As much as I hate Quebec, the rest of Canada just being a vassal to Quebec, I am quite fascinated in hoping they pass their secularism bill, as the average Quebec citizens don’t take **** from anyone else, get the popcorn, this will be a good show.
As for BC, it can fall into the Pacific with all the other left coast left wing nuts to their south.
And Kebekistan kindly show you a finger that you can stuff in your talking back orifice…
Good, because we in Québec NEVER EVER want to be part of the USA. So even if you beg us you can go f*** yourself. As per the Rest of Canada (RoC), there’s no difference between them and the U.S. anyway, same language same culture. Some might ask, why Canada does still exist?
Good, because we in Québec NEVER EVER want to be part of the USA
Perfect, because we in the USA NEVER EVER want you to be a part of us, so all is good.
https://screenshots.firefox.com/oLoKuODJgylzpmI6/www.wolframalpha.com
current weather summary near center of Canada
https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=canada+temperature
Global warming caused 2018 record cold temperatures in Regina, Saskatchewan but, but,….
February, 2018
• Just 9 days into the month, Regina has already doubled the average number of frigid February days
April, 2019
Canada warming two times faster than the rest of the world: report. … Between 1948 and 2016, there has been a mean annual temperature increase of 1.7°C for the country as a whole and 2.3°C for northern Canada.17 hours ago
I copy pasted a table for converting compressed natural gas, natural gas, diesel and electricity to gallons of gasoline equivalent. It didn’t paste very well so here’s a 2nd (and final attempt).
CNG @ur momisugly 3000 psi Gallons @ur momisugly 3000 psi 0.239 GGE = CNG gal @ur momisugly 3000 psi x 0.239
CNG Hundred cubic feet 0.877 GGE = CNG ccf x 0.877
Diesel Gallons 1.155 GGE = Diesel gal x 1.155
Electricity kWh 0.031 GGE = Electricity kWh x 0.031
Gasoline Gallons No conversion needed GGE = Gasoline gal
True Dough and Climate Barbie want Canadians to be climate taxed to change their ways. Their stated intent is to force us into smaller vehicles and change our vacation habits. Translation – They need more taxpayer money for flying to Florida for the weekends at taxpayer expense.
Also ironic since the True Dough fortune was made by Grandpa and his chain of gas stations in Quebec……..
The real deal on carbon taxes is that they are deadly to economies. The “revenue neutral” idea is a sop, to lull people into thinking they really aren’t so bad, and the thought that many folks might actually come out ahead on the deal is also a ploy, again to trick people, or should I say sheeple. Because they are getting fleeced.
It’s a way to bribe young urban voters to vote for Trudeau, because those kids will be ‘refunded’ far more tax than they pay, and that ‘refund’ will go away if the tax is eliminated.
So it’s another wealth transfer from the people who do the real work that keeps the country going, to the Millenials working at Starbucks.
I don’t get the Canadian system: the Prime Minister can levy taxes ???
In short, it’s something like this: in a majority government, the PM can do anything he wants. And Canadians don’t even get to vote for him, they can only vote for their local MPs, who then work for the PM instead of for their constituencies. Those in the governing party. The others don’t count.
In case you don’t believe me:
https://nationalpost.com/opinion/andrew-coyne-liberals-accomplish-nothing-but-vindictiveness-for-vindictivenesss-sake
Goebbels would smirk at the way the CBC has zoomed in on the doom and gloom like we have never seen it and the bigger the lie the more we’ll believe it.
I’m so happy they’ve got Trudeau and we’ve got Trump.
If we’re not careful, though, we could end up with AOC. She’s fun to listen to – makes dumb blonde jokes obsolete all by herself. But there are people dumber than her who would vote for her. Hopefully Soros doesn’t have that much money.
Ha! I’m not the only one who suspects it was no coincidence that the Canada’s Climate Change Report 2019 was leaked the same the day carbon tax started.
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Why Canadian ‘climate porn’ is ineffective
If you’re gullible enough to believe it was pure coincidence that a doomsday report by federal climate scientists on global warming was released on the same day Prime Minister Justin Trudeau imposed his carbon tax on four provinces, I have a proposition for you.
I would like to sell you some oceanfront property in Alberta caused by rising ocean levels due to global warming.
https://theprovince.com/opinion/columnists/goldstein-why-canadian-climate-porn-is-ineffective/
A really disgusting hypocrite way of taxing and tacking the so-called global warming/climate change bs. If he believes in AGW and the effectiveness of counterbalancing it with this carbon tax, why did he cut last year in tax deductions for public transport costs? A deduction that Conservatives put in place some decade ago. What message does it sends? Leave the subway, buy a car! And now this. For whom is this carbon tax going to be most costly? Of course for the people/families with low incomes.
On april fool’s day, we were “blessed” to see climate barby and the archbishop of warming cult guilbeauld (a failed theology student) trying to justify the carbon taxe on the french channel CacaNadian Bullshit Corporation (CBC). OMG CacaNada is, according to a study from EnviroBS CacaNada, is warming twice as much as the rest of the planet. Just looser militant activist and BS polico to tell us what to think, no one with a shred of a beginning of scientific credential…
Did you know that archbishop guilbeauld have once proposed that electric bus could recharge “on-the-go” at each couples street corners. Hard to understand that such imbecile is given airtime on the national network, but this is Kebecistan…
This is nothing but wealth redistribution. The plan will give some people more money back than the increase cost them and others will get nothing back costing them more. But will do very little reduce CO2 emissions as the people who get more back than they spent on the carbon tax will end up emitting more CO2 with the extra money they now get.
https://notrickszone.com/2019/04/03/cbc-claims-canada-warming-twice-as-fast-as-globe-yet-data-tell-a-different-story-no-warming-in-25-years/#comment-1299946
CBC at it again…
Come the November federal election the SNC Lavalin scandal will have drifted off to no where . Anyone inside
Quebec or who has worked their knows this is business as usual . Remember the Olympic stadium debacle that the people of Quebec paid for over decades ? Maybe still are .
Mr. Dress up will be remembered for the apology tour , the imposition of a carbon tax claimed necessary to set the earth’s temperature , legalized dope , and the really big whopper a balanced budget that has turned into $18 billion in more debt . Millenniums will need to be stoned when they realized how this PC drama teacher has sold them out . But never mind that , his chances of getting reelected…extremely high . Canada likes cute , stupid politicians and after all he claims budgets balance themselves .
“economists don’t expect the carbon tax to affect economic growth much in the near-term.”
It’s just some more money running to and fro the channels heating them up by friction and: silently building up inflation. Venezuela already caught some. Influence.
Name it “the Venezuelan ‘flue.'”