The Carbon Fiasco
Now Everyone Is Jumping on the Bandwagon to Remove One of the Carbon Taxes! But What About the Other One?
Well how about that! The Liberals are just finally understanding that the carbon tax costs Canadians money and hurts our economy! It took them eight years to figure this out, but better late than never I suppose. But do you really want a country run by a party that takes that long to put two and two together? The People’s Party of Canada (PPC) has been against this carbon scam since its inception in 2018. Frankly, it’s not rocket science!
Liberal leader hopeful Mark Carney has said he will drop the tax. But … he will institute a plan that will have a “carbon border adjustment mechanism,” which is just another way of saying tariffs. This will be applied on imports into Canada if the products’ country of origin don’t meet Canada’s environmental standards. Carney doesn’t want to say the word ‘tariffs’ as he knows it will worry Canadians and lose him votes, for Canadians are becoming acutely aware of what the U.S. will do in return, and most Canadians understand that the U.S. carries a much bigger stick.
Let’s think about that for a second. The United States, by far our biggest trading partner, just pulled out of the Paris Accords. They are no longer aiming for carbon reduction. Instead they’re going to “drill baby drill.” The United States aims to make energy extremely cheap for its businesses and citizens. Although it believes in climate change, it doesn’t believe in climate catastrophe. How do you think Trump will react to this plan of Carney’s? Do you think he will take it lying down?
Our next largest trading partner is China. In 2022 it was building about two coal plants per week, according to a report by the Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air (CREA) and Global Energy Monitor (GEM). In 2023 the trend continued with China accounting for 95% of the world's new coal power construction that year, according to a Carbon Brief report. So you can infer from this just what the Chinese think about carbon reduction targets. Again, ask yourself what China will do in response if we tariff their goods?
Tariffs make products more expensive for you and me.
So Carney’s idea of a ‘carbon border adjustment mechanism’ (cough … tariffs) to force other countries to have environmental standards, like the Liberals’ standards, will just add financial hardship to Canadians. Do you think these countries will comply? Or will they instead laugh in our face and match our tariffs with their own? Or worse, exceed them? The U.S. economy is about 13 times larger than Canada’s. How do you think that’s going to work out? And China, our second largest trading partner? It’s about 8 times larger. It’s extremely easy to connect these dots!
Carney also wants to apply ‘incentives’ to Canadian companies that are heavy commercial carbon polluters, such as: oil and gas companies, heavy industry such as steel, cement, aluminum, as well as the chemical industry and energy-intensive trade-exposed sectors. Carney acknowledges this will raise the prices of these products, but he thinks the consumer won’t pay that increase because, how did he say it in the CTV interview on Feb 1, 2025?1 ‘The big products that these companies are consuming are not by and large what Canadians are consuming. A steel company … how much steel are you using these days Todd?’
I’m so flabbergasted at this fallacious claim and lack of reasoning ability, I almost don’t know where to start! Let’s begin at the end of the clip, where Carney asks the interviewer how much steel he himself buys. How about a lot! Steel is used in the construction of houses - which we need for the huge immigration numbers the Liberals, Conservatives, and NDP want to continue bringing into Canada - not the PPC! It’s used in the making of fridges, freezers, ovens, dishwashers, washing machines, dryers, bedframes, furnaces, air conditioners, stairs and railings, support beams, cabinets, storage racks, shelves - to mention a few. What about cars? Sheds? Laptops? Gardening tools? Cutlery? Pots and pans? Lamps/lights? Power tools? Good grief, there are millions of products!
And that’s just steel! What about aluminum? Cement? Other heavy metals? Good grief, what about energy, which is used to produce EVERYTHING and heat and illuminate our homes!!!
And Carney thinks that when the Liberals put an ‘incentive’ on these companies that requires environment compliance, that these costs won’t be passed down to the final consumer? That these extra costs will be absorbed by the primary manufacturer and the secondary manufacturers and won’t result in raised prices? Is he dreaming? What world is he living in? Has he seen what is happening to economies around the world that have adopted these policies? Like Germany? U.K.?
Now, we can’t just blame Carney for a lack of vision. The NDP’s Jagmeet Singh has brought forth a similar plan that he thinks won’t hurt the consumer, one that won’t be passed down to the working people. It’s a slightly different path but leads to the same destination: higher prices for Canadians and a stagnating economy. What businesses would want to invest in Canada with all this regulation? Without business investment, we have fewer job opportunities, more unemployment, crime, homelessness, and people needing social assistance.
The Conservatives have been saying for a while that the carbon tax is harmful to Canadians and have been against it since it was proposed. That’s good. But they only go half the distance. If you have two holes in your boat, do you only repair one? It looks like the Conservatives are trying to play both sides, to have their cake and eat it too.
There is a second carbon tax, a hidden tax, called the Cap-and-Trade Systems, to which the Conservatives are turning a blind eye. It sets a certain amount of carbon that a manufacturer is allowed to emit. If it goes over that allowance, it pays a tax. This tax is passed onto the consumer of course - hence, a hidden tax. The Conservatives don’t mention getting rid of this program. Why not? If you don’t speak out against it, you support it. So why do the Conservatives support this hidden tax? How many bureaucrats are we paying to run it?
Why does the carbon tax exist? To reduce emissions. Why are we trying to reduce emissions? Because we signed the Paris Accords, which has emission reduction targets, plus a requirement that developed countries send developing countries money to help meet their reduction targets. By the end of 2024, Canada sent about $9.1 billion of taxpayer money to other countries.2 It’s set to reach $15.9 billion in 2031.3
Who voted to be part of the Paris Accords?
Liberals, NDP, Bloc, Green, and … the Conservatives!
All five of these parties say they will cut the carbon tax, but none of them discuss why it was implemented in the first place, and all of them have an alternate plan to meet the Paris Accord commitments - all of which will cost Canadians billions!
Which federal party has stated it will withdraw from the Paris Accords and revoke the cap-and-trade system?
The People’s Party of Canada! And only the People’s Party of Canada.
The PPC believes the climate is changing, and that it always changed and will always continue to change. We do not believe carbon is a pollutant. In fact, with increases in carbon these past decades, we have seen an increase in the greening of the earth - and not in already green areas, but semi-arid and arid areas. Deserts are shrinking!4 This leads to more crops, which leads to lower prices, etc. Would you rather have it browning? Becoming colder? Shorter growing seasons? Less crop yields? More expensive food?
The temperature isn’t catastrophically rising.5 Sea levels aren’t catastrophically rising.6 Floods aren’t more frequent or more dangerous.7 The predictions of the ice caps being gone … they’re still here.8 9 We aren’t dying more from storms of greater intensity.10 Polar bears are not going extinct - quite the opposite in fact.11 Wildfires are decreasing, not increasing.1213 The number of hurricanes is not increasing in frequency or intensity.14 The coral reefs are doing better than ever, and it’s recognized that warmer temperatures would make them thrive even more.15 Economic damage from drought is at a record low.16 And finally, there isn’t a 97% consensus among scientists that human activity is causing the current global warming. That consensus is 0.3%.17
When will you stop letting the climate-fear porn be the reason to allow governments to extract taxes from you? Why are you letting the NDP, the Liberals, the Bloc, the Greens, and the Conservatives make you poorer? Consider all these lies you’ve been fed, been taught in school, been pushed by the government-paid-for legacy media. Do you really want to have less to give to your children? Can you afford not to act?
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