Carbon tax hike 'is wrong,' says N.B. premier | Power & Politics 

what kind of a reporter is this? sounded very very partisan to me.

Not really any reporters on the CBC, it’s a liberal propaganda outlet! Nothing more at this point.

Yeah, and banning CFCs isn't going to stop the ozone hole from increasing!

Latter.

CBC, do I need to say more 😠

Hard to watch them try so hard to want to tax Canadians.

Being a liberal activist is mandatory for state funded media.

David work for CBC tax payers pay his salary, he should be ashamed and disguised

its the CBC need we day more?

CBC, Liberal owned

defund the CBC now!!!!@@janetstokes1806

His paycheque relies on it

I noticed the same thing. How people can be in favor of this carbon tax?

Higgs brought in legislation last summer so that we even had to pay IRvings share of the property tax. Higgs could get rid of the carbon tax tomorrow with a cap and trade system.

Haha, what part was well said? Higgs could replace the carbon tax with an alternative tomorrow but doesn’t because shitting on the government is better politics 😂

Are you new to this program? Challenging the guest is what is expected on this show, regardless of their political stripes.

He wouldn’t bite the hand that feeds him!!

“Tax is good / tax is bad” is an overly simplistic analytical model for this climate change mitigation initiative. Putting a price on carbon has been proven effective worldwide. One can also argue that it is only one tool and is proving to be insufficient on its own as a Canadian solution to meeting our Paris Accord commitments, and we don’t have enough carrots in the left column to reach our goals in the timeline we have committed to.

@@josephsmith594, 😂 even if we hit our goal 4x over, do you really think it would matter? Yay we reduced our emissions by the 10s of millions, really crushing our citizens, all the while China is adding 2 billion onto its yearly total. Want to make a difference, stop growing the population so fast and take care of the forests.

@@perllyngrenn2100 LOL. Try and keep up.

David is so biased. Trudeau's welfare program with the Carbon TAX. Trudeau cut the scandals would help . David can't be trusted. Remind TRUDEAU moving forward with. NO FARMERS NO FOOD=NO FUTURE like Europe is

Conservatives's obsession with the carbon tax is irrational, irresponsible, and self serving. The largest ever study on carbon pricing proves that it works at lowering fossil fuel CO2 emissions growth rates. Conservatives refuse to acknowledge that climate change is increasing costs and causing hardship for Canadians.

Because they are Liberal schools...

CBC's obsession? The Conservative party, the official opposition currently campaigning for election, just called a "Carbon Tax Election" last week, but CBC is obsessed...

They must support their cash cow!

He definitely has a plan

It will blow your mind but it has literally been years!!! No one would listen until the Trucker freedom protesting Canadians stood up! Look up Dr. LESLIE Lewis on the Conservative party for more being 8gnored.

That is the plan, no Carbon tax. Our Carbon output is 1.5 %. Our forests more than handle this.

@@harrywood8196 Canada's emissions are about 1.5% of the global total but we have about 0.5% of the planet's population. Thoughts? By the way, carbon dioxide concentrations are the highest they have been in hundreds of thousands of years so no, our forests are NOT handling this.

@@harrywood8196Canadian (and all) forests grew over hundreds of thousands of years in proportion to the CO2 that the planet generates from fires, volcanic eruptions, etc. Forests have gotten SMALLER, not larger, with humanity's increased CO2 production.

Except as the reporter said, other countries have not only already started shutting coal down, but have already been securing alternative fuel sources for years. Europe and other countries announced in 2016 in the Paris Climate Accord that they would begin shutting down coal. If Blaine Higgs wanted to "get in" on alternative energy sources, it's taken eight years just to suggest "it's something Canadians should do".

*Should say "Europe and countries around the world"

@@AsThe3rdEye Europe has been begging Canada for it's LNG for YEARS! We could sell our LNG to countries dependent on dirtier forms of energy, which would make us rich and actually LOWER global scale emissions.

@@kanuduh5234 And also, where will the money for a conversion and expansion to LNG come from? This is ignoring that in addition many of the Paris Accord countries are also cycling down LNG usage.

@@AsThe3rdEye They're cycling it down because they are running out of reliable sources for LNG! Most of europe was supplied by Russia! Not anymore! After they literally BEGGED Canada to sell them LNG, Trudeau said no, so they started cycling down LNG. If they had a steady, uninterrupted flow of LNG, they would obvious ramp it all back up! You can't be this dense, for real.

Get rid of Conservatives who want to get rid of the CBC, Canada's public broadcaster and voice for Canadian culture.

@@garyhaggquist740Another voter helping to bring the country to it's knees, good job bud !

@@garyhaggquist740 the cbc isn’t Canadian culture anymore.

@@steveo4253 Canada isn't on its knees - spare us the disinformation. Conservatives are on their knees in front of the fossil fuel industry, right wing billionaires, and wannabe autocrats.

@@daryletoews7099 Of course it is. Conservatives don't care about Canadian culture anymore. The last Conservative government cut millions from arts funding.

That's because they've all been bought off by Trudope- he gets his bonus anyways!! CBC buy off!!

He's not a reporter. On this program, the host challenges the guests.

​@@perllyngrenn2100 In my opinion it's respectful to try to listen and understand before you go onto your next challenge

This reporter loves carbon taxes; he should pay his and leave the rest of us out of it.

He’s not a reporter he’s a government spokesperson

The next election isn't until October 2025. That's a lifetime in politics. Remember, you live in Canada. Canadians will take their anger out on the NDP, Trudeau will win another minority, however, this time the Bloc will prop him up and hold the balance of power. Quebec wins again.

If you think blaine higgs makes sense you need to think again. For one thing, even Alberta and Saskatchewan wont' stop using coal. You think China is going to stop using coal when the people selling them gas won't stop using coal?

@@mikearchibald744 is that you, Greta? How dare you?

@@tedpoplawski4325 Ah, your one of those people with an unhealthy fascination with young girls are you.

CO2 is not only a life giver, it is also a waste product from fossil fuels that has made some ecosystems, agricultural zones, and feeding grounds we depend on not adaptable enough to the current climate change trend. A pollutant is any substance, as certain chemicals or waste products, that renders the air, soil, water, or other natural resource harmful or UNSUITABLE FOR A SPECIFIC PURPOSE.

@@rps1689 Do you even have a clue as to what % of the atmosphere is CO2? Didn’t think so.

@@tedpoplawski4325Sure I do. .04 percent. Atmospheric CO2 was about 50% less about 170 years ago than what it is today. Now it is 0.04 percent and then it was 0.02 percent.

@@rps1689 LOL..and which “ scientific study” has stated that CO2 is a climate changing “ pollutant”?

@@tedpoplawski4325You can't refute that CO2 rising at the current rate is a pollutant in regard to its influence on climate. If you could, you'd be the biggest name in science since Einstein plus the next rock star of apllied physics.

Carbon tax has been around since Stephen Harper played with the idea in 2008. If carbon pricing were the cause of inflation and increased costs then the inflation rate in 2019 wouldn't be on par with 2006. The global shipping and economy getting the brakes slammed on during COVID and increasing product scarcity, THAT impacted inflation. People who escaped the 2010 crash with some money and started buying "investment properties" impacted inflation. And people who wanted to "fight the encroachment of communism" setting themselves up on the border making it even harder to get products in and out of Canada made it even worse.

@@AsThe3rdEye Stephen Harper lost his popularity for totally different reasons than Trudeau has.

@@DWreck958 Not even tangentially related to what I'm talking about.

You do realize 'communism' has ZERO to do with 'wealth redistrubution' right? You do realize virtually the WHOLE federal taxation system is 'wealth redistribution' right? You do realize that even PRIVATE INSURANCE is 'wealth redistribution' right? You do realize your pension plan is 'wealth redistribution' right? As is your dental plan, your health plan. You do understand these VERY basic political concepts right? The carbon tax comes from PREMIERS, not Trudeau. Don't like 'wealth redistribution', fine, get INVESTMENT redistribution. Namely, get EMITTERS to buy credits from mid sized companies who are doing efficiencies. Thats a cap and trade. Nova Scotia's liberal govenrment had one, Ontarios liberal government had one. Quebec has one. The CONSERVATIVES are the ones intentionally screwing YOU with the 'wealth distribution'. The feds gave them the CHOICE. The provinces chose to tax YOU.

@@mikearchibald744 don't care. we can't afford any more tax hikes. election now! the people have spoken and you're in the extreme minority

There are two systems for pricing carbon. One is applied to industrial emmiters and the other a fuel charge, which is a consumer carbon tax on the gasoline and fossil fuels used to heat a home. Carbon pricing systems provide a type of rebate” to firms in the form of subsidies based on how much they produce, and they never pass on the savings to the consumer, which is basically a collective form of price gouging on thier part.

@@rps1689 rebates?? Laughable..” budgets balance themselves” , right?

@@tedpoplawski4325So you can't refute a word I said.

@@tedpoplawski4325 The only balanced budgets in my lifetime were in 1969-70 and 1997-98. Both times under liberal governments. The largest deficits in history are now and back in the early 80s both under Liberal governments. And the longest consecutive deficits were under a conservative government, which brings to mind the Conservatives’ final budget in 1993 produced a deficit of about the same level that it was when Pierre Trudeau left office. That being said, balanced budgets are not necessary as history shows, but politicians love to say we need to seek a balanced budget knowing they have more of a symbolic value than that of necessity. One only has to look at a history of acts aimed at forcing balanced budgets make recessions longer and deeper by requiring tax increases or spending cuts during hard times, plus they can be manipulated through accounting gimmicks.

Thats why you get a rebate.

​@@mikearchibald744 i dont want to cash advance the government for my weebate. Just buy a Tesla and you get a star 🌟 on your belly like a Sneetch. 😂

@@mikearchibald744 only clueless leftist think taxing one results in MORE money in their pockets. “ Budgets balance themselves, right”?

@@DR-nw7xnTry english next time. If you dont want a rebate I'm sure the governmetn would oblige you. Next time don't vote for a conservative provincial government and you wouldn't have a carbon tax.

Canada has 0.5% of the planet's population. Thoughts?

@@perllyngrenn2100 Irrelevant. You copy and pasted this nonsense everywhere.

CANADA doesn't even get off coal. In fact the MAJOR users of coal are alberta and saskatchewan, despite them haveing shitloads of gas. So that doesn't even make sense. This guy is in a province which doesn't even HAVE oil or gas, so what does that tell you about who he's working for. Its not the people of new brunswick.

@@mikearchibald744 Are you lost?

@@kanuduh5234 No, are you a bot?

Yeah, look at our debt. It'll take over a generation to correct that course!

@@kanuduh5234 yes he has piled on more debt than every prime minister combined. That’s astonishing. The printing press hasn’t stoppped printing money since 2015. Lol

David is one of the worst reporters so biased. Watch if the puppet master goes they will be looking for a new boss

I think the kool aide is the other direction. Canada has done about the LEAST of ANY country as far as emissions, in fact our emissions are growing thanks to alberta. China has done about a THOUSAND times more. And since even Alberta and Saskatchewan STILL use coal, then we really can't preach about others. The fact is, even the US is cutting LNG exports. They are building an export ternminal in bc which will be done next year, OUR use of fossil fuels really has nothing to do with the carbon tax.

Hicks drinking to much New Brunswick oil.

@@mikearchibald744 ONG ..where do you pull these “ facts “ from, your azz? Chinese is increasing its building of coal energy plants.

@@spotty67 Try and keep up.

What percentage of Canadians is carbon pricing literate do you reckon?

Haha… same people probably think the Earth is flat!!

When you write 'ha ha ha' in your comments you really can't criticize other people. It most certainly does. In fact we are going to be carbon neutral by buying auctioned off used solar panels and going off grid all thinks to the liberal no interest loan. But of course you wont do that, and you'll be paying higher and higher prices for BOTH gas AND hydro. While I'll be adding to my resale value. Not only that but the retrofits that people have been making have been SAVING them money. You are better off parroting the guy who at least says 'it won't help the climate', which is likely true, but it certainly helps the environment, that goes without saying. Ha ha ha.

@@mikearchibald744 the carbon tax is actually worse for the environment than helps! The money doesn't even go towards helping the environment it just gets handed back as a rebate and people literally just go and buy more fuel with their rebates! Trucks are getting bigger RVs are getting longer it's definitely not changing behavior in any way! More fuel in 2023 than any other time in history so it's definitely not changing behavior in any way! The 350 full-time employees having to drive to work to process the payments offsets whatever miniscule amount of emissions the carbon tax might have saved

@@Meeksballs Thats not close to true. As said, you can argue it may not affect CLIMATE. But the envirionment and people its a no brainer. For one thing, the rebate goes to lower income poeple who need to make efficiencies. Now, the province COULD set up like Nova Scotia, where poor dont' have to pay ANYTHING. But they dont, but thats on HIggs. But if you aren't more careful with your gas now that its THREE times the cost it was two years ago, well, no further comment. MOST of that is money into big oil's pockets, but I'm certainly not rushing out with my rebate to buy more gas. I have property, thats 'the environment', which more money helps me take more care of, which is a CONSERVATIVE policy, which is why this WAS a conserative policy. As for emissions thats because poeple are gullible enough to think Trudeau is 'anti gas'. Alberta is churning out more than ever. Thats where ALL our emissions are, thats where all our emissions have ALWAYS been. Want to be angry, we in the east and bc are paying a carbon tax SOLELY so that alberta nad saskatchewan dont look like pariah states to the world. But again, don't like the carbon tax, talk to your premier. They could have a cap and trade. And IF that many big trucks and rvs are on the road then it disproves your claim that its hurting people too much. As usual, it hurts the poor most, which is why they get a rebate.

Right on. Now he's begging Ottawa to pick it up.

So is water - but guess what happens when you get too much? While CO2 is essential for plant growth, all agriculture also depends on steady water supplies, and climate change (caused by too much fossil fuel CO2 in the atmosphere) is disrupting those supplies through floods and droughts.

CRA collect from China and India!❤​@@garyhaggquist740

So Venus should be teaming with life with its carbon dioxide atmosphere then. Oh, wait...

CO2 is not only a life giver, it is also a waste product from fossil fuels that has made some ecosystems, agricultural zones, and feeding grounds we depend on not adaptable enough to the current climate change trend.

Why plant more trees?

How much did you get for your CCR this year?

My heating bill cost me some gas for my chainsaw. I went green years ago by shutting off gas and cutting down renewable trees.

Good grief, you are complaining about 115 dollars a month for gas?? Hell we were in ontario a DECADE ago and paid more than that.

@@linejumper8204 Aren’t you special.

Don't count on it. Even if the conservatives were to win the next election, they would need a majority to do anything. Alas, if they were to do that, once they open the books, defunding the CBC will be the least of their worries and priorities. Oh, and I should add that many or your neighbours actually want to keep the CBC, as it is Canadian nostalgia and "not like the Americans". They think the CBC is part of "Canada's heritage". Liberals and liberal-lite Tories run English Canada for their overlords in Quebec.

defunded to $0

The plan is to use both, nat gas which produces about 60% of the CO2 of coal, plus fully renewables. But how do you pay for the retooling of both consumers and manufacturers to go from oil/coal to natural gas and "green"?

@@AsThe3rdEye There's already countries that have been begging Canada for LNG for YEARS!

@@kanuduh5234 Replied to your other comment saying the same thing.

@@AsThe3rdEye Again, There's already countries that have been begging Canada for LNG for YEARS!

@@kanuduh5234 I'm going to write this very slowly for you now. We. Don't. Manufacturing. Or. Transportation.For.That. How.will.you.pay.for.it? To name a few; Pacific Northwest LNG was to do 18 million tons of natural gas per year. The investors pulled out because of the up front costs and plummeting global prices on LNG. Prince Rupert LNG Canceled because the company was bought by Royal Dutch Shell which chose to cancel that project and focus on the one passing through indigenous territory

So to burst your bubble, but the same conversations are happening on CTV.

@@perllyngrenn2100 Yeah, they would be hit with the defund axe too! All media.

not a bloody chance

@@user-ng4fp1xz7k if there was an election today, there would be a 99% chance of the conservatives getting a massive majority. The liberals are going to be voted into a fringe party status LMAO

Milton is still right on this. You just have a lot of people here who drank PPs koolaid.

@@zzappligator absolutely agree. The americanization of Canadian conservatism is a tragedy

No one said it does. Look up what it’s supposed to do and why economists favour it.

Geoengineering is not a climate forcing. "Weather modification" was funnier when tin foil hats called it “Chemtrails."

How’s life in that cave?

23% TOTAL David this on top of the other raises for Trudeau's welfare program

He doesn't care, as his job is to challenge the guests just like he does when challenging liberals.

You can thank bill c-11 for that one!

He acts like a politician on one side of the debate.

that is part of the reason Pollievre wants to defund the CBC

Are you new to Power and Politics? He defends the tax to opponents. His job is to CHALLENGE the guests. He does that to everybody regardless of their political stripes.

@@perllyngrenn2100 No it's not. His job is to report and to elucidate a guests position. Not to take a position or to defend the governments position.

@@jptrainorWrong. His job is to challenge his guests.

Quebec's plan? BAAAhahaha, they have it special with a lower rate than any other province. No other province can use Quebexico's plan! We can scrap the tax all together and sell our LNG to coal dependent countries and get rich doing it while ALSO lower global emissions. It's a win/win.

Yep. He's a corporate shill. Compressed liquified or compressed hydrogen is not a source of energy itself and is a storage and transmission medium; it's made mostly from fossil fuel now. Hydrogen fusion energy is available as sunlight, but the process can't be reproduced by humans yet. Though waste from a thorium fuel cycle needs long term storage, at least the waste is more stable than that of the uranium fuel cycle and drops down to safe levels of radiation just after a few hundred years; still a challenge, but noting like that of dealing with the waste from today’s and past plants.

Uh, WE have nothing to do with the rest of the worlds decisions.

Dental for some seniors LOL

And a corportate shill and puppet for the Irvings.

Algorithms.

LOL” renewably powered everything.” The stupidity of that statement wins the internet.

@@tedpoplawski4325 Transitioning to 100% renewably powered everything is a popular opinion. 82% of citizens in various different countries support this energy transition. I just watched "Road to 100% Renewable Energy with Dr. Mark Jacobson. May 15, 2023" on RU-vid.

Uh, no it doesn't. Carbon tax right now is 14%. Thats $1.40 on a litre of fuel. Gas companies just jacked up gas prices TEN CENTS last week.

@@mikearchibald744 Clueless.

Don't hold your breath.

If only he cared about his own province.

Some for sure, but Higgs is a hyprocrite. One only has to see how he with the family that runs the province maintain the status quo of ensuring that NB has an unfair high provincial personal tax burden and a very low tax burden on business plus keep the electorate more so spectators than participants in their "democracy".

Jet fuel is included, but there are expemptions.

Clueless.