Guess What You're Getting, Canada

Idiots:

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced that his government will be increasing the price on pollution by $15 a tonne per year at a press conference on Friday, joined by ministers Jonathan Wilkinson, Steven Guilbeault, and Catherine McKenna.

Prices will continue to increase every year, starting in 2022, until carbon reaches $170 per tonne in 2030. 

 

More: 

The carbon tax will keep rising “until we reach our targets,” cabinet’s representative in the Senate said last night. “We will be seriously fighting climate change for the first time,” said Senator Marc Gold (Que.), who had earlier promised the 12-cent a litre tax on gasoline would never go up: “Yes, there is an increase.”

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Justin Trudeau waited until the House of Commons adjourned for Christmas before announcing a plan to increase the federal carbon tax by 240 per cent and spend $15 billion on greenhouse gas reduction measures.

The evasive manoeuvre may have undermined the opposition parties but it has not pacified pockets of simmering resentment across the country.

Brian Allison farms 1,800 acres near Delburne, east of Red Deer, Alberta. A beef and grain farmer, he has seen his freight costs rise 20 per cent in the past three years and now expects heating costs to dry his grain to double because of the carbon tax increase from $50 a tonne in 2022 to $170 a tonne in 2030.

He said competitors in Brazil, Russia, Australia and the U.S. do not have a carbon tax, putting Canadian farmers at a disadvantage. “It is death by a thousand cuts. I don’t like being put out of business by government regulation and taxation,” he said.

Yet even Allison acknowledges the climate is changing and government should be doing something about it, even if the legislative response should be harmonized with competing nations.

“When the U.S. implements a carbon tax, Canada should follow suit. But not before,” he said.

 

(Sidebar: and that sentiment is why you are going out of business.)

It's for the "environment":

The Canadian government says it will spend $3.16 billion to plant two billion trees (at a cost of about $1.58 per tree) over the next 10 years.

Natural Resources Minister Seamus O’Regan made the funding announcement Monday at a tree nursery in St. John’s, saying the project will help Canada achieve its goal of net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050.

 

Will he grow them where all the forests are? 

Don't waste your time, Pierre. Canadians will never learn:

Carleton’s Conservative MP Pierre Poilievre has started a new petition, to stop Trudeau’s new $170 per tonne carbon tax. This comes after his petition to stop the great reset.

In a video posted to Twitter, Poilievre is at a gas station and states "The carbon tax hike will drive money and jobs out of Canada to lower-taxed foreign economies. Sign my petition to axe the tax and bring paycheques home."