Manipulative taxation is not going to work on me. I am not going to change one thing as Alberta winters are cold and we have a natural gas furnace. It is punishment on regions that do not have hydro electricity. Even if I used an electric car, 86% of electricity here is generated by natural gas and coal so what is the difference there. Unfair taxes should not be collected.
@@konadoggerc9605 yeah and they used to pay a lot more, before they did a switch and started taxing the population more and the rich less. They already have all the money, just sitting there doing literally nothing (not participating in the economy), that money doesn't get circulated around. And we need to hold accountable those who produce the green house gasses, idk why you are against the bill that's literally trying to lessen our impact as a nation to the climate crisis we are living in. Remember those forest fires, they will be worst just watch. Remember those record temps we have been having for the last 9 months???
@@konadoggerc9605 ok and keep on spewing the talking points you got in your social media echo chamber, or look at the tax revenu you have this year and the year its gonna get axed.
A carbon tax is a *part* of a climate plan. The money goes towards other climate initiatives and puts additional pressure on the markets to switch away from fossil fuel energy.
@@beyondfossil While I agree that the carbon "tax" is a part of the climate plan, it's meant to be revenue neutral. The money from the carbon "tax" does not go towards other initiatives; it's returned to Canadians in the form of rebates based on their income level. The lower your income, the higher your rebtate.
@@beyondfossil Not sure what the plan is and its obviously not working. It was a huge blunder that did nothing to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. A dollar spent generates emissions no matter who spends it. The massive increase in Federal government spending resulted in a large increase in emissions. This government has no idea how to reduce emission or a comprehensive plan to achieve that. All it did was make people angry and fuel the denial movement. It was a monumental screw up.
These numbers are sooooooo inaccurate, my accountant informed me the rebate gets you 20 percent of the total you pay on average. The numbers are deceiving when looking at the supply chains as most goods are taxed multiple times by the carbon tax per one good or service and charged GST on top of the tax! For example a produce item at a grocery store is taxed more times than we ever thought. (1) The diesel on the tractor/ combines and farm equiptment ( 2) The diesel or fuel consumed to transport the finished goods to the store by large trucks (3) tax on fertilizer and diferent growth agents deemed high in emissions by the government. Its absolutely insane to think prices arent effected.💰💰💰💰💰
Your accountant is wrong. You might, but on average we get back more than we pay. My friend gets 800 a year. They do not pay 800 dollars in carbon tax a year. But hey; your accountant said it so it’s true! Must be nice to live in a world where truth doesn’t exist lol. Use facts bud, not feelings. You’re a poor liar.
@@Karlswebb show me the math formula for what you paid in carbon tax? Or are you just saying other people are wrong because the government told you that you are getting more back? Do you think a trucking company is just eating the cost or passing it on? Are farmers drying grain eating the cost or passing it on? Are the grocery stores eating the cost on heating and cooling or passing it on because none of that has been added to the formula when the government did the math for this tax. And they have admitted none of it has been put in the equation. So please send me the formula you use and I will wait for the so called facts.
@@Karlswebb Did you just say that we get back more than we pay? That doesn’t even make any sense. It’s not even logical by any stretch of the imagination. Why charge it if they going to give it all back and then some? A carbon tax is not for us, it’s for the government. It’s foolish to think otherwise.
Look, as an adult, if you actually still believe giving the government money will change the atmosphere of the earth, I don’t know what to say. Punishing Canadians financially isn’t achieving environmental goals.
You are actually right on this, people have completely forgotten why a government exist and it's purpose. When a government bring a new tax for a problem, that means they are making avenues to make more money. Government purposely create these new catastrophizes and make people think they needs to give more money to government to solve the problem. This should be stopped immediately.
I'm still yet to hear how taxing a small population in one of the coldest countries who makes up less than 2% of global emissions is going to change anything on the global scale.
@@kanuduh5234 it's just another narrative by governments across the world to collect more Money from people to. More money with the government just leads to more corruption.
The true fact is the carbon tax rebate will not be able to cover the cost even if you live in a condo and not own a car. The carbon tax will drive up the inflation. Food, cloth and most other things will cost much more as they all rely on fuel for transportation. The carbon cost for these item will not be listed individually on your bill, but an overall increase to your spending.
@markanderson100 so you haven't been noticing everything getting more expensive? What else is there? Things were NOT this bad before Trudeau. The only thing economically aside from the pandemic that has changed, is the carbon tax. So tell me, Mr "I'm so smart" What is causing it then?
@@markanderson100 You need a basics class in economics 101. I'm embarrassed for you, genuinely. The tax itself is a scapegoat for gov't spending. Canada makes up less than 2% of global emissions and could go carbon neutral TOMORROW and it would change nothing about climate change or global emissions.
@@VerbalMurderGaming Please do a quick and simple search for the driving forces behind inflation. There are many factors and yes, this a global issue and not one caused by Canada's carbon tax.
The government is screwed. my son that live at home pays nothing but he is 22 get carbon tax rebate and gst rebates. I get nothing of that. I don't get it.
@@jimmehp2748 BC has a Provincial carbon price that was introduced by BC's right wing party in 2008. It has nothing to do with the federal carbon price. Evidence shows that without the carbon tax BC's emissions would be much higher, and have only grown because BCs population and economy has grown. Five different published studies have found BC's carbon tax, introduced in 2008, has cut overall emissions, reduced per capita gasoline use by 7%, improved average vehicle efficiency by 4%, cut residential natural gas use by 7% and diesel use by more than 3%. Meanwhile, in the 15 years since B.C. brought in its carbon tax, it's outpaced the rest of Canada both on emission reduction and GDP growth.
Rural people chose to live there. Living in a rural area should not exempt you from dumping into the river.. the same way shouldn't exempt you from polluting extra CO2
Oh, please! Carbon taxes aren't intended to "change the weather." More than 46 countries around the world (and counting) have adopted carbon pricing as part as their emission reduction efforts. Sweden has had one for more than 30 years. I don't think they're embarrassed.
it just a tax to pay for the out of control social services budgets to buy votes and the covid fiasco its not a tax its a tax to save the environment so you guys can't be mad about it right? riiiiiight?? @@john15008
Has anyone actually changed their behaviour since the carbon tax? No one I know has! The only thing that has change is how much we pay for fuel, home heating and groceries. There’s better ways to help save the environment that don’t require a tax
@@Sam19509 not everyone likes to spend time in a metal box that smells like bathroom among violent homeless people which public transit in toronto essentially is.
This story is so disingenuous... these 'Journalists' STILL never bring up the main issue - the higher cost of everything because the carbon tax is applied at every level of the supply chain. Everything everywhere costs more, it's not a simple calculation of what you directly pay for gas and home heating vs what you 'get back' from the government. All life is now more expensive.
The public budgetary office said their analysis did not include indirect or secondary carbon taxes. Indirect carbon taxes apply to everything that has required equipment to build or make (farm equipment powered by diesel, propane used to dry crops), everything transported by truck, rail or airplane in Canada (that would be all products you buy). The cost of indirect carbon tax is passed on to everyone in Canada. And this is not covered by the rebate for anyone!
@@rotor676 yes, I believe this benefit is given to farmers Canada wide. Farmers also get special treatment on income tax, as do politicians. Not sure what your point is - farmers get a break on fuel tax that everyone else pays, so? I like the idea of my food costing less because it is taxed less. Do you think food should cost more because the federal government should tax it more?
Where does the heating oil come from? A little birdy told me that it is IMPORTED! If so, can we make our own heating oil in Canada and provide it cheaper to the Atlantic provinces?
Basically you pay money to save the earth. ?? Massive immigration also causes an increase in Canada’s greenhouse gas emissions. More consumers leads to more consumption leads to more requirements for production, energy use, heating etc etc. so why don’t you put a cap on immigration if you’re concerned about carbon emission??
We need easily affordable alternatives before a carbon tax can work. The majority of Canadians right now will be negatively affected. I think carbon emissions need to be drastically cut soon but I don't think raising the carbon tax right now is a good idea. Work faster on making electric cars, electric heating, and clean energy cheaper and focus your energy on that FIRST. We can't be pushing thousands of Canadians into poverty
It's just a political scapegoat. Look at all the ignorant comments here thinking that the carbon "tax" is behind the source of all their cost of living problems..
@@markanderson100 It's certainly exacerbating the problem, along with other liberal policy and borrowing/spending/debt. Saying it's a global problem is your scapegoat for glossing past how much these policies are exacerbating EVERYTHING!
She missed a LOT and made incorrect statements. The BoC stated it was not .15% of inflation but .60%. Also the PBO stated that the majority of Canadians spend more than they get back on the carbon tax, if they get a refund at all. She needs to do a lot better on her research
You need to do a deeper dive into the subject. According to the PBO, as the price on carbon emissions increases in the next few years, the cohort that receives a net benefit will indeed shrink. However, there will ALWAYS be that cohort. If people want to be a net beneficiary, make better choices. Does everyone need a gas guzzler to go grocery shopping or take the kid to soccer practice? That's the whole point of carbon pricing. Furthermore, everyone who fills out a tax return in the one of the provinces with the federal backstop gets a rebate. Everyone.
The carbon tax does not reduce emissions greatly because it disproportionately hits low income earners, when it is the high consumption of the wealthy that drives more emissions. Even if it does reduce Canadian emissions, remember that most of our retail locations sell stuff made in China, the largest emitter in the world. Are we really lowering our emissions when we just outsource manufacturing for the goods we consume to countries and let them create the emissions?
This comment goes against literally every study into carbon pricing. The low income earners actually benefit the most as they tend to emit the least while receiving the same rebate. The high emitters pay more but receive the same rebate as the low income earners. The carbon tax essentially gives money to the lower income earners from the wealthier, heavy emitters.
@@andrewm8703 Ultra low income people don't file tax returns and get nothing back. It's not about the rebates anyhow, they are small potatoes compared to increase in food, heating, and production costs that feed inflation and hurt the working poor the most. I run in upper middle class circles and this tax doesn't deter them from high consumption and jet setting around the world.
@@ownrhythm6536 the National Post did a study on the effects of the carbon tax on food inflation. It found 40 cents of every 100 increase is attributed to the carbon tax. For the ultra wealthy, this is a tax on them that is being redistributed to the middle and lower class. How is that a bad thing? If they are not changing their ways, at least I get some of their money in my pocket
What about a farmer? Diesel tractor for feeding cows, combined for producing your food? What about a trucking company who delivers your food to the grocery store, you pay carbon tax on your food. It is completely insane to insist this tax is for the environment. It is simply another revenue stream for this crazy “the budget will balance itself” government.
The entire quote that Conservatives cherrypick is - "the commitment needs to be a commitment to grow the economy, and the budget will balance itself. Harper & Reagan said very similar things. Why can't Conservatives ever be honest? Climate change is affecting farmers & truckers! When will Conservatives ever acknowledge this fact?
The carbon "tax" is revenue neutral - all money collected is returned to Canadians in the form of rebates - precisely because ignorant people would otherwise demonize it as a cash-grab. Case in point.
@@markanderson100 The carbon tax is NOT revenue neutral! How daft do you have to be to believe that. The tax literally gets passed on to consumers through good and services, further exacerbating inflation. You seriously need to stop regurgitating CBC and liberal/ndp talking points and learn how economics work.
Carbon tax rebates never asked me what I use. I’ve been in a city, where just about everyone uses gas..but we don’t, just hydro for a heat pump for the last ten years, yet I’m spending on average of $322/month on hydro….now, I need to think to spend more for an electric car infrastructure? + they never asked me how much I drive around either, so, my particular footprint is extremely low, yet I pay a lot…even with rebates…..so, yes, I’m confused. We changed windows, doors etc….
Canadians across all of Canada want change and relief from taxes and the significant cost of living increases caused by the Liberal Federal Government and the NDP and BLOC supporting them! This Coalition of Liberal, NDP and BLOC have cost canadians so much and will take a long time to recover from!
I guess it's convenient to blame the current government in power instead of actually understanding why costs are going up. The cost increase are happening across the world and aren't unique to Canada. Some municipal/provincial policies have certainly worsened the situation (in housing, especially), but you're directing your anger at the wrong target.
@@markanderson100 And yet the BOC and multiple different experts have came out and said all these liberal policies are exacerbating inflation. You willfully ignorant or what?
@@kanuduh5234 Lol I can appreciate you feel the need to blatantly lie, but the Bank of Canada does not make partisan comments. I couldn't care less about the liberals, fyi. I do care about the facts, though, instead of just repeating conservative nonsense like you are.
@@markanderson100sorry gas is still 25¢ a gallon in the middle East, Venezuela, Dubai UAE etc ... Mexico isn't paying $7 for celery, $9 for bacon, $7 for butter, $6 for a dozen eggs... your clueless
@@huggybear3098Food inflation is a global phenomenon and is expected to get worse. I get that you're ignorant on what's going on outside Canada, but that's on you. The Bank of Canada itself estimate the contribution of the carbon "tax" to be tiny (will below 1%). Go learn a thing or two before having a conversation beyond your league.
Yes, they are only looking at direct carbon taxes and not the indirect costs through the whole supply chain. Every tax on producers ends up being paid by consumers.
The National Post did an inquiry into this. They found that 0.4% of the grocery price increases are attributed to the carbon tax. This is from the paper that is the most antagonistic to the carbon tax.
Show the figures. How much more do they pay due to the carbon tax itself? How does it compare to global supply chain crashes, wars in Europe, Middle East and Africa? How much is associated with the 'look-home' policy of our neighbours down south? How much is down to simple profiteering by the oligopoly of our grocery chain owners?
I think many things can be true at once, Canadian's absolutely want to help slow down climate change and keep our environment pristine and as beautiful as it is. But paying random sums of money in form of a tax, which i have NO idea where the money is actually going, and at the same time not giving incentives or rebaits to change to cleaner renewable sources or EV's... Then really we have to question what is the point, other than to makes my life harder.
Look up Climate Action Incentive if you're that much in the dark about where carbon tax revenues go. Furthermore, rebates and incentives for vehicles cost money. The Harper Conservative government tried a program like that in 2007 but it was cancelled after one year because it was too expensive.
Why didn’t Jagmeet stand up for Canadians and push to drop the Carbon tax. Because he is ok that people gave a high cost of living and are not happy living in Canada. He is ok with Super taxing us all. We previously already paid to much.
The “rich” pay far more carbon tax than the poorer people. In fact, they pay around 50% of the carbon tax and the money collected is given back to the poorer people
In principle the carbon tax is a good idea. But if farmers have no other way of processing their grain then using fossil fuels then it's impractical to charge them. Like other liberal policies, the consequences were not thought out.
Farmers can easily offset the cost by slightly charge more, which they are. Bank of Canada and a recent Calgary study shows that carbon tax added about 0.3% to the cost of food. That’s 3 dollars every 1000 bucks spent. That mean on average most people will spend 30 bucks a year more.
@@joeisawesome540 maybe but farmers costs are much higher it's just their so much further down there food chain. They can't just charge a little bit more if they want to cover their costs
@@DigSamurai buddy, we have 40 million people, and a lot of food is also exported to America. When we talk about multimillion-dollar farms with millions of consumers, they will easily cover their costs by selling the product a tiny bit more because there are so many downstream consumers. Remember the mushroom farm that said that their carbon tax cost is around 150k? well, they grow 10.5 million lb of mushrooms per year.. So an increase of 1.5 cents per lb would have covered their entire carbon tax payment. would you blink your eye if your mushroom went up by 1.5 cents a lb? People overestimate how much carbon tax adds to the cost. Lying politicians like PP like to throw around big numbers but they never tell you how much that will actually cost the farmers per lb of goods they sell. if you actually do the math, you will realize it is very tiny.
Lol what solutions are the Conservatives offering that anyone should vote for them? All they seem to be doing is ignorant rhetoric capitalizing on people's frustrations.
@@markanderson100 The conservatives are offering alternate technology and energy sources; things that will actually lower emissions. But they also understand Canada makes up less than 2% of global emissions, meaning there's NOTHING Canada can do to change emissions on a global scale.
Just remember Harper started the carbon tax. Liberals implemented it. Doubt little pierre will do anything different. ..but go ahead. People forget Authoritarian was used to describe Harper. ...Just remember you comments stay or will you delete them in time?
How many millions of tax dollars go to the CBC, and they have a cheap green screen that looks worse than the average RU-vidrs? This place needs to be abolished.
@@scottythegreat1 It would go bankrupt immediately. That's the issue. Taxpayers are propping it up. Remove the taxpayer funding and it essentially is privatized-- but bankrupt.
My electricity bill doubled in the last two months, my rent increased another $2400 a year and food has almost doubled in the last few months, that's not just me but millions of others who have lost their ability to budget and live comfortably, all of the extra money people use for eating out, entertainment and buying power has been significantly reduced, people are angry and the government knows it....but do they care, probably not. We'll have to wait and see what the Liberals will do to ease the pain, another handout maybe?
32.62% voted for the Liberal Party. 67.38% voted for a party other than the Liberal Party. 33.74% voted for the Conservative Party. And yet, Trudeau has the power of a majority government by forming a coalition with the NDP or the Bloc.
In the last election, only the PPC didn't endorse carbon pricing. It was part of the Conservative's climate plan under O'Toole because he knew he didn't have a prayer to reach targets without it.
The carbon tax isn't a tax on fuels it's a tax on everything. There are a "number" of carbon taxes "four" in Ontario if one considers the 'clean fuels surcharge" impossed on July 1st this year, Ontario's "Compliance tax" expected to bring in $2 Billion over the next eight years and the Output Based Emissions Tax on large emitters pricing carbon by the ton. Any government claims about how much this adds to the cost of living is pure unadulterated bull$hip!
Even a kindergarten kid can recognize what’s fair and what is not. Carbon tax inequities are coming home to roost. Cost incentives only work if the alternative is affordable. As it is now, the alternatives are unaffordable or not available. All this carbon mess is doing is making Canadian citizens poorer and angrier.
I do agree that there need to be stronger positive incentives to allow people to switch. Making alternatives more affordable is a no-brainer. There are some grants, but it's not nearly enough.
Absolute money grab. I get back only 350 a year. But I pay 2 thousand increase in just my Utility bill. Gas and other bills is a plus. So, Its not fair- giving back is a total lie. If they want to discourage using fossil fuel, what is other available source to heat my home in Alberta?
carbon tax has never had anything to do with the environment. we NEED to drive, we NEED to heat. beyond this we have not hit any goals that were set, which means it does not work! We should have gone to an incentive program. you will take you coat off much faster with sunshine then if you try to blow it off with high winds!!.
The answer is we all pay all the time, because if the person selling you the thing pays it you pay it, if the person selling them the thing pays it, well you and the person who sold the thing to you pay it again, them if those who make the thing pay it well everyone on top of them pay this tax again. This is much worse than just adding a few cent/L on when you refuel your car or buy some heating fuel.
You are so right!!!!! It's the same as the sales tax. The manufacturer pays tax on the material to make it, the wholesaler pays it again, the retailer pays it on top of that, the consumer then pays on purchases but when that item is sold second, third, fourth, etc. times you are paying the tax each time again. The best example is a car. Not many of us can afford a new one. Your vehicle has had 3 previous owners which means the tax has already been paid 4 times in GST-PST and or HST. In some province they tax house sales. We're a society that's getting scr####ed by the government everywhere we turn.
You didn't acknowledge the fun facts about who has major interests in the preferred heat pump company. Mark Carney is not the only shareholder. This is not a conspiracy theory but fact. Somewhat like many of the other federal contracts being exposed. Millions being fed to insiders. It's not about the environment folks, it's about money.
We do not get more than we pay in tax, that isn’t factual. No one calculated the indirect or secondary carbon tax increases throughout the supply chain. It’s all passed down to the final product that we the consumer pay for. Additionally there costs of collecting the carbon tax and processing the rebates. Nothing is free!
The government needs to do more to offset the costs to switch to cleaner sources across the country. Most people do not have extra money kicking around to make these kinds of changes quickly. Homeowners change their furnace every 20 years and usually only when it breaks down. I suggest making a green loan more accessible to people and larger grants for this specific area. Home heating is probably the biggest single improvement that could be made by individuals to reduce their environmental footprint. I was one of the lucky ones to be able to take advantage of it and cut my green house gases to about 1/3 of what they were last year. We need this to be available to everyone. Get rid of the source of the problem which is older heating methods.
Let’s pay more carbon tax and the fires will stop , and the hurricanes will never happen again in Atlantic Canada Mother Nature will then be nice to us cause we are paying more carbon tax . Doesn’t matter if we go broke or starve can’t afford anything but as long as the fires stop in BC and the hurricanes stop in Atlantic Canada everything is good .
I'm not one of these people who screeches every time they hear about a new tax, but if I have to pay tax I want it going towards something. IF there was going to be a Carbon Tax with the goal of reducing greenhouse gases the revenue from the tax should have been directed towards that goal. I live in Nova Scotia but thankfully we have electric heating, but if we did have oil as our heating it would be so much more beneficial if the government took the Carbon Tax revenue and put it towards converting homes that use heavy carbon products like home heating oil into carbon neutral options it would actually reduce emissions, and eventually the need for the tax in the first place. All this tax does is punish people who need to live. The government says it gives a financial incentive, that's false. It punishes people who are too poor to be able to choose.
Everything related to sustainability including carbon tax is first of all a question about the way we live. Most of our provinces are in very energy consuming urban, suburban and rural structures. Those structures were supposed to be restructured to be more livable, affordable and sustainable with lower energy consumption. But, instead of it, we fell into real estate speculation bubbling designed by many extreme neoliberal provincial governments. Hence, urban living style with walkability in optimal density which is still considered as the most efficient and effective solution for our sustainable future, it becomes now too expensive and quasi impossible to afford for the ordinary Canadians. Everything started falling down from there.
Unfortunately, although most Canadians have been vaccinated against freedom, they turned to the dark side and forgot to stay up to date. Otherwise they would see the government as their master and would not misbehave like this. Anyway that's why more support needs to be given to the media.
my carbon tax costs as much as the natural gas I use to heat my house, and I have high efficiency everything. Like I have an option on whether I heat my house or not. The rebate is a joke and the govt misrepresents what that rebate is for the average person. In no way does the rebate offset the carbon tax
the fact that we've been raising this tax for 5 years and no one has tabulated or even mentioned (on the Liberal side) it's impact on cost of EVERYTHING requiring a fossil fuel (plastic, rubber, paint, automotive products, cleaning products, food, building materials, any type of service, anything stored in a warm building or transported anywhere, electricity and everything else..) is jusy so, so purely Canadian of us
When you add carbon tax on farmers, then truckers, then store heating, it has a LARGE affect on the final cost of goods, especially food. The tax is compounded many times by time your good hit the store.
The carbon tax is a wonderful idea if the government could give me options. Options of eating stuff not transported from farms and purchased from grocery stores. Options on heating my home without fossil fuels that would be reliable during a Canadian winter. Options of effective, affordable transit so I wouldn't need a car. Yes, carbon pricing could be a great idea as long as we are okay with not achieving any actual climate goals.
On a similar note, since we're paying more for this tax than getting back, use the surplus to give people who can use them a solar panel or small wind gen. It would be an option to offset at least home heating/cooling energy usage. Nothing will compensate us for the income loss due to elevated food and delivery prices but at least we'd have some kind of "out" from burning nat gas in our basements.
I RENT! I CANNOT CHOOSE MY HEAT SOURCE!!!! If you want to “incentivize” switching away from oil and gas, charge my LANDLORD! Ffs I’m so tired of no one pointing out how unfair this is.
You are wrong you PAY more in carbon tax than you get back Last year I got only 134 dollars back in Alberta. This tax drives up all food, and anything that goes on a truck you buy!
Carbon tax would not be so bad if there was a choice not to use it. Were in a carbon economy you must also have alternatives not just tax thinking somehow the emissions will come down which is what i assume the tax is for.
Heating and cooling your home should be considered a necessity of life. Taxing home heating is like taking money from peoples mouths. Heartless is the word that best describes forcing individuals to pay taxes in order to survive winter. What about forcing industry to go to hydrogen and give the rest of us time to convert.
Rebates do nothing. It makes it look like they do something. If I give you a $300 rebate but at pumps and grocery and utilities you pay 10x more it doesn’t balance out. It’s just laundering money they printed.
This is getting pretty close to what the CBC should be doing. They're still no where near the price we pay for them, but I'd give this a passing grade for the least liberal bias in a massively liberal media outlet. What they should have done here, though, is a LOT more questioning of exactly what the carbon tax is accomplishing. They should also have pointed out that the Liberals can't have on all sides. Either the tax is inconsequential to inflation AND people get back more than they pay, which makes the exemption unnecessary, or the exemption is a huge relief because the tax IS that much of burden and does contribute to inflation, or the environment IS so important that a few Eastern Canadians freezing during the winter is the price we pay to fight climate change. Which one is true?
No one talks about the oil companies being able to transfer carbon tax fees between themselves. The carbon tax has a scale that increases $/tonne to a ceiling then actually starts to decrease. What is happening in Alberta, for example: the top polluters actually buy carbon from the smaller companies so their price per tonne goes down. This transferable tax has allowed large oil companies to have greater controls over their smaller competition. Have we heard a single argument against the carbon tax from the major oil companies in Canada?
My guess is that every time the PM and/ or Guilbeault and/or Wilkinson jump on a plane, more carbon from the jet fuel burned is more than the carbon from all the heating oil burned in the equivalent duration of any of those flights. Someone should do the calculation.
That just emphasizes why things like a carbon tax is needed--to start breaking down global fossil fuel hegemony. Do your own calculation on how many trillions of dollars annually worldwide in subsidies that the global fossil fuel industry gets and prepared to be shocked.
@@beyondfossil Canada makes up less than 2% of global emissions. Explain to me, how a country with such a small population and one of the coldest climates, is going to change anything on a global scale. We could become carbon neutral TOMORROW and not a thing would change globally. I'll wait.....
@@beyondfossilso you are saying that we are charged a carbon tax and then they use that money to subsidize the oil companies. I'm ok with that. Only the weak minded are scared of the climate changing.
jagmeet saying he is reluctant to vote with Conservatives in any way.... that right there says he has zero interest in what is right for Canadians and is only interested in what is right for him and/or his party. THIS IS NOT CANADIAN DEMOCRACY and the whole system needs to be changed.
This is why it should be illegal for international corporations to lobby governments. Corporations using government to purchase your products is disgusting and immoral.
So if you live in a rural country instead of uding oil to heat your home because it's too expensive.You're gonna start cutting down trees from your bush Which kind of defeats the purpose Of keeping trees around to filter the air.
I love this guy that says you have options and you could use a different fuel to heat your home and safe. No I do not have options. I am rural and I’m either propane electric or wood
There are four carbon pricing (taxes) schemes in Ontario. 1. The direct tax on fuels at the pump and home heating. 2. The price per ton on heavy emmitters. 3. The clean fuel initiative introduced on July 1st last. 4. The GST on all the above. Tell me again about how these taxes have a negligible effect on infllation?
I used my $400 carbon rebate to purchase $400 of gasoline . I use gasoline to refuel my trunk generator that I use to recharge my tesla car battery. Hahahaha!
OK CBC now why don’t you go do a report on electric heat pumps. And the problems associated with it. That’s where the Canadian public really needs good education because it’s not as rosy as the sales pitch is. A lot of people are gonna get screwed on heat pumps because you’re not bringing them up to speed.
