“We urge the federal government to eliminate the carbon tax to ensure fairness and ease financial pressure on Canadians.”
The greatest opponent of the idea of carbon taxation in Canada is turning out to be Justin Trudeau.
Of course, Trudeau supports the terrible tax, but his mix of incompetence and willingness to divide Canadians is making the tax into a political pariah.
By giving a targeted exemption to the tax that only benefits portions of the country, Justin Trudeau has all but forced politicians across the nation to campaign against the tax in order to placate their constituents – who are justifiably outraged that they are forced to pay the tax on their home heating costs while others get exempted.
And with the Conservatives wisely pushing the Liberals further into the trap Trudeau set for his own party, Trudeau and the Liberals have two ways to lose, and no way to win.
If they vote against expanding the carbon tax exemption nationwide, their own MPs will become even less popular and outrage across much of Canada will surge.
If they vote for expanding the carbon tax exemption nationwide, they be openly admitting that the tax makes life less affordable, and they will accelerate demands for the tax to be completely repealed.
The extent to which the Liberals have undermined their own signature ‘climate policy’ can be seen in a new statement jointly issued by five provincial Finance Ministers:
“NOTE: The following is a joint statement from the finance ministers of Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Ontario, Saskatchewan and Alberta”
“The federal carbon tax is having a disproportionate impact on affordability for millions of Canadians without actually creating options for people to move away from fossil fuels.
The federal government’s recent decision to remove the carbon tax on certain heating fuels in some provinces and not others is creating further jurisdictional imbalances. We urge the federal government to eliminate the carbon tax to ensure fairness and ease financial pressure on Canadians.”
What did the Liberals think would happen?
Did they really think they could just dole out breaks from the carbon tax in regions that happened to elect more Liberal MPs and then just avoid a massive backlash?
Momentum will continue to build against the carbon tax, and a policy that the Liberals once assumed was entrenched will either collapse in the next few months, or help lead to the defeat of the Liberals and their replacement by a Conservative government that will repeal it.
Either way, the carbon tax will in large part have been undone by those who imposed it in the first place.
Spencer Fernando
