Stupidity Is Giving Your Government Carte-Blanche to Tax You Under the Guise of Saving the Environment

This is how industries and countries fold:

Over half of Canadians, 53 percent, say the federal carbon tax is ineffective at combating climate change, according to a new poll by Nanos Research, with most saying it's also badly timed.

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What do Canadians think of carbon taxes? We know what the federal government thinks: Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault is a huge fan, as he has been a vocal proponent of his government’s imposition of a minimum price of $65 per tonne of carbon, which has raised the price at the pump by 14 cents per litre in much of the country.

The escalating carbon tax, which will eventually reach $170 per tonne, combined with the new clean fuel regulations, which the PBO estimates will cost households between $384 and $1,157 a year by 2030, will raise gas prices even further.

As for Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland, she is carbon-tax-positive, as well. While in Prince Edward Island in July, she was asked about the impact higher fuel prices will have on residents and gave this tone-deaf answer: “I am right now an MP for downtown Toronto, and a fact that still shocks my dad is that I don’t actually own a car.… I’m like 300 metres from the nearest subway; I walk, I take the subway.”

While she apparently forgot that she has access to a ministerial car and chauffeur, she did concede that, “I understand that there are communities in P.E.I. and across Atlantic Canada where you need to drive.”

Indeed. And what do people in those communities, and the rest of country, think about carbon taxes? As it turns out, they’re not nearly as bullish on the subject.

A recent survey by Nanos Research found that two-thirds of Canadians think now is “poor timing” or “very poor timing” for a carbon tax increase. Western and Atlantic Canadians take the dimmest view, at 79 and 73 per cent respectively. Even in eco-conscious Quebec, 53 per cent of respondents think the timing is wrong.

Worse yet, Canadians say the tax isn’t effective at reducing fuel consumption. In 2019, Nanos found that 42 per cent of Canadians believed carbon taxes were effective or somewhat effective at reducing fuel consumption. Today, only 32 per cent hold that view. Sixty-five per cent of Ontarians and 63 per cent of British Columbians said they believe a carbon tax is not an effective way to encourage people to use less fuel.

 

But they voted for it.

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In 2009, Ottawa made its first commitment to end “inefficient” fossil fuel subsidies that “encourage wasteful consumption, distort markets, impede investment in clean energy sources, and undermine efforts to deal with climate change.” Last year, this was adopted as a mandate of the Trudeau government.

However, instead of delivering on this pledge when the federal government released its framework in July, the new policy consists only of guidelines to evaluate subsidies without announcing the elimination of any of them.

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This douche again:

Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault’s department closed Arctic weather stations even as it warned of catastrophic climate change, records show. Parliament had voted $384 million to modernize the Meteorological Service of Canada: “Climate change has already altered our reality.”

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Ratepayers will see higher costs for electricity, says a staff memo to Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault. The Department of Environment would not estimate how much more consumers and industry will pay for “green” electrification: “Expansion of clean electricity supply towards 2050 will increase costs.”

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Yes, but the Narrative:

Myron Ebell, director and senior fellow at the Center for Energy and Environment, said that while June and July were hot in many locations, other places experienced below-average temperatures. Los Angeles, for example, experienced its 10th coolest June on record, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).

"Yes, June was hot, July was hot, globally, but not through the roof," Mr. Ebell told The Epoch Times. "The planet is not boiling. Southern Europe has been very hot. But not everywhere is having record-high temperatures."

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Climate grifters assert that July 2023 has been the hottest month in 125,000 years.

But how do you explain the fact that in northern summer of 1846 Franklin sailed in the HMS Erebus and Terror north-west of Devon Island reaching 77°N - but today during the supposed "hottest… pic.twitter.com/q4V4nMH4Y4

— Craig Kelly (@CKellyUAP) July 30, 2023