Guest essay by Eric Worrall
Canada PM Justin Trudeau has promised to make manufacturers pay $170 / ton of CO2 for the crime of providing Canadians with jobs and economic security.
Trudeau hikes carbon tax, positions Canada to hit climate goal
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau stepped up efforts to hit Canada’s emissions targets by 2030, pledging billions in new money to combat climate change and increasing his marquee carbon tax.
The measures, announced Friday in Ottawa by Trudeau and Environment Minister Jonathan Wilkinson, seek to put the resource-rich northern nation on track to cut greenhouse-gas emissions by as much as 40 per cent below 2005 levels by the end of this decade, versus the current 30 per cent goal.
Central to achieving that will be an increase in the government’s carbon price to $170 (US$133) per metric ton by 2030. It was already on track to hit $50 two years from now, and will increase by $15 a year after that. Though revenue from the levy is returned to the provinces via consumer rebates, it’s being challenged in the courts by oil-producing Alberta and others.
“There are still places in this country that want pollution to be free again,” Trudeau told reporters. “We are going to continue to increase the price on pollution and give more money back to Canadians and their families.”
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Read more: https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/trudeau-hikes-carbon-tax-positions-canada-to-hit-climate-goal-1.1535201
The official Canadian Government release describes the plan to raise carbon taxes to $170 / ton of CO2 by 2030 (page 26).
As far as I can tell the easiest way to escape this punitive tax is to export carbon intensive manufacturing jobs to “developing countries” like China.
Under the Paris Agreement China gets to defer any obligation for meaningful carbon action until 2030.
Not only can you avoid these taxes in China – if you work your ‘biden’-like contacts, the CCP may even offer you workers from their pool of free labor…
“revenue from the levy is returned to the provinces via consumer rebates”. Undoubtedly by do-gooders, working for free. It a most surprising form of philanthropy – paid for by recipients.
Now if we only can save ourselves from those that are saving the planet! Wonder if we could encapsule Trudeau in solid carbon (Coal mine). We know he won’t be paying those taxes. Just all the consumers will go broke as everything goes up in price. Never mind the cost to manufacturing anything. And for what? China will be laughing to the bank and as the only world power left.
Les Gilets Jaunes comes to North America. International Brotherhood of Yellow Jackets unite!
What effect will this tax have on the climate, Justin? Maybe Griff & Loydo can help you answer that simple question.
Their answers will be nonsense, therefor Trudeau will proclaim them to be like the Sermon on the Mount
How did you Hosers vote for this clusterf*ck imbecile TWICE???
We probably didn’t vote for Mr. Dress-up (Trudeau) … any more than the US voted for Biden/Harris. The elections were fixed. This will be the new normal. Soon there will be no alternative to voting electronically, then people like Biden and Trudeau will be elected with 100% of the votes.
The system is corrupt and we let it happen.
At the last election run up in Canada I found that all it takes is about 7 or 8 left supporting people to fleece the district out of an honest election. What happens is these leftists will be the first to “VOLUNTEER” for the key positions where they can manipulate the counting process. Then they will appoint their own loyal foot soldiers to do the counting. One of these loyalists was over heard at the counting place “That it is for the greater good you know.”
The electronic voting that was done in the last provincial election in the Eastern province of New Brunswick had the conservatives a head by a fair margin till about 10:30 PM. at 10:30 it was announced that the counting would continue in the morning. The next morning the numbers magically began to switch to the Liberals when the counting continued. The Liberals “Won” that election by a 3% margin. That happened in 2018 and Dominion voting was involved sounds familiar some how a trailing party could suddenly jump ahead after the vote counting was stopped during the night.
Carbon Bigfoot,
Answer: Dominion vote-tabulating machines.
Yea, we are just that stupid.
This policy has two origins:
Trudeau has identified a “virtue signaling deficit” that it is imperative he overcome, as he was the previous title holder
Also, the need has never been greater to distract from his grubby money laundering “charity” scheme he tried to slip through under cover of covid spending.
Watch for more announcements if this doesn’t get it done
I am happy to say that it appears Trudeau was squeaky clean with the government purchase order, through proper channels of course, to his buddy Frank Bayliss’ seven day old company for $237 million in emergency CoVid ventilators with a $100 million markup. Trusted suppliers being worth their weight in gold during a crisis…..
Eric
Although, to be fair, with all Trudeau’s moves to make canada a vassal of China and the liberal party little more than a fully bought and paid for adjunct of the CCP I think we could credibly claim to be part of China and therefor not have any CO2 targets until 2030
Brilliant
Sky’s the limit now that the entire time consuming and carbon intensive voting process can be efficiently sub-contracted to China…
As our friends in the Great White North starve in the cold and the dark…
$1.27 USD / Gallon.
cool. How’s that Great Reset coming?
That’s a liter
So $4.83 a US gallon
Sucks to be us
So, is this wrong:
https://www.globalpetrolprices.com/USA/gasoline_prices/
$0.66/litre ($2.50/gallon)
Here in the UK, we’re paying $1.53/litre ($4.34/gallon)
Sucks to be us
But the original figures are almost correct in the UK.
Petrol £1.27 per litre
£5.71 per Imperial gallon.
“There are still places in this country that want pollution to be free again,” Trudeau told reporters.
So which would I rather have?
Free ‘pollution’, or a $170/ton ‘carbon’ tax.
My problem is that he wants to put a on tax carbon-dioxide which is not the same as ‘carbon’ and also that carbon-dioxide emissions are not ‘pollution’.
“Pollution” ? CO2 is that special type of “pollution” without which all the plants die. And if the plants die, we all die.
When Pennsylvania implemented a Wage Tax my street smart Dad who had to quit school at 11 years old because his step-father died in a mine cave-in. with his mother and 5 siblings to support, stated at the tax announcement …..”the next fu*cking thing is that they’ll tax the air.”
Don’t need no education to figure out those political wizards.
To quote Bugs Bunny: “What an embezzle! What an ultramaroon!”
Tax will save us all, the more taxes the better 😀
Or maybe we can be AOC’s “tax the rich” tops for 60 dollars and help her get communism in the USA and canada, surly people won’t have money for cars yet alone food, that means less carbon.. Greta would finally smile
A local online B.C. poll, 65% said abolish the carbon tax, and 14% didn’t want it to go any higher. You’d think what ever the people want they would get. Governments need money. Provincial debt climbs. They have to raise taxes I suppose but don’t lie and call it a carbon tax. Call it what it really is, a “Government is big and irresponsible and need more money” tax. If Trudeau wants to save a few dollars, maybe he can outsource troop training to China. (sarc)
If anything, mankind needs to start developing technologies to create CO2 for the day we run out of fossil fuels.
Big question.. Will Canadians continue to vote for this clown..
… if so…
…. WHY ???
The Dominion software of course. Anyone that actually votes for Trudeau should be sterilized. They should be getting the COVID vaccine first. It would come as no surprize if sterility was one of the side effects of the vaccine. It would take a long time to become apparent and just what would happen if they refused to pay out? There will be nobody to inherit the wealth anyway.
Before Trudeau turns Canada into an appendage of China, he might want to have a look at how the CCP is treating Australia at the moment.
Trudeau’s plan, in the introduction, states there are costs associated with inaction:
“According to the Canadian Institute of Climate Choices, the number and cost of catastrophic weather events this past decade alone – from flooding across the prairies and southern Ontario (2013-2018), to wildfires in Alberta and British Columbia (2011-2018), to severe weather damaging Canadian farms (2018) – were twice as high as those recorded in the previous decades together. Insured losses alone totaled over $18 billion between 2010-2019.”
I’m surprised they didn’t mention the oceans turning into acid. Does this guy realize, in terms of mean temperature increase, the climate’s sensitivity to carbon dioxide has not been determined? There is no evidence. There is no test. The temperature significance of fossil fuel CO2 is harmless and likely close to zero, which is why so little work has been done to elucidate the conditions that give rise to a damage threshold and how little empirical information has been generated about its magnitude.
And he calls it carbon pollution…how dumb is that? Carbon is soot, China has a carbon pollution problem. The “pollution” Trudeau is talking about is carbon dioxide, a clear trace gas and the life of plants.
We’re going to miss Trump. He was a breath of fresh air on the climate file. The first leader of the west to address this nonsense and pull the U.S. out of the Paris Accord.
Costanza was right… “Remember Jerry, it’s not a lie if you believe it.”
Trudeau must go! No mandate, no discussion with stakeholders (voters) a minority government under the thumb of the globalists. Our country is spineless against the outrageous antics and seemingly endless corruption scandals of this pseudo government.
Didn’t China just commit to reduce carbon intensity per GDP after 2030? If that’s the case then all they have to do is make higher valued products to achieve their goals without reducing emissions.
It could be that China believes its plan to take over the world will be complete by 2030. so anything after that doesn’t matter.
And why would anyone trust any numbers coming from the CCP anyway? The CCP will say whatever they want to say.
Trudeau is a turd.
Is it always the case that no one seems to “kick the scum out of office” or like reaction. Just some whining, bloviating, questionable jokes, predictions of harm and everyone just gets back into line, takes their wallets and pays the tyrants tax?
I’m a Canadian. I live in Alberta.
We’re not allowed to swear in our posts here, are we?
I love Mr. Trudeau and his entire family, and am grateful to him for all his hard work to head off climate change and make Canada the world leader it must eventually become.
See, we’re not allowed to swear, but we are allowed to lie, so I thought I’d take advantage of that.
Besides that, Trudeau is every bit as honest as that estimable election winner Mr. Biden, and he speaks just about as well as Biden too.
We have to make sure the next Conservative PM WILL CANCEL THE CARBON TAX. Do you get the message Mr. O’Toole??????? Can we trust you???
Andre, is that you?
The same Trudeau who said he admires the Chinese Communist dictatorship. Yes, he’s on tape saying that. He admires the Chinese Communist regime that has killed tens upon tens of millions of people, runs slave labor camps, harvests human organs and commits countless other atrocities. And Trudeau admires that. This man is a monster. I don’t have the link handy, but a quick search should pull it up.
Elitist Trudeau f#@king Canada’s middle class and economic future.
Who’d a thought it?
OK . . .so, the average human exhales about 2.3 pounds of carbon dioxide on an average day. (The exact quantity depends on your activity level—a person engaged in vigorous exercise produces up to eight times as much CO2 as his sedentary brethren.) — source: https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2009/08/are-you-heating-the-planet-when-you-breathe.html
This is equivalent to an average person adding about 840 pounds CO2 over the course of a year.
So, all you Canadians: even if you don’t use a single drop of fossil fuels, or a single watt of non-reusable electricity, or a single ounce of food grown, transported or prepared for consumption using energy created by humans burning fossil fuels, or any service (such as health care or education or city-provided potable water or sewer service or garbage service) or any new product (such as a book or TV or refrigerator) having raw materials and production relying on using fossil fuels, you will nonetheless still be expected to pay $170 * (840/2000) = $71 to the government each year just for the privilege of living in 2030 and thereafter . . . your minimum share of the “carbon tax”.
Not to worry, though . . . the US will not be far behind you . . . maybe even ahead, in this regard.