OTTAWA — The Supreme Court of Canada has found the Liberal government’s federal carbon tax law to be constitutional, dealing a blow to the governments of Ontario, Alberta and Saskatchewan who had been fighting the law in court.
In a 6-3 split decision released Thursday morning, a majority of justices found the law is constitutional because reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions is a matter of national concern, and the law is focused on that narrow purpose while still giving provinces the ability to come up with their own solutions.
So are there champagne corks being popped here? 🍾 🥂 Or are they working on their pronouns?
Separation.
HAHAHAHA! Good luck with that. If you sampled the demographics just in Calgary, a losing proposition. We’re Tronna on steroids. Wuflu cases are indicative and the Mayor et al would lock the City down on that alone. See: https://calgarysun.com/news/national/supreme-court-says-the-federal-carbon-price-is-constitutional/wcm/b78d7b88-0805-4dd9-8dec-6e6ad1d6226f
No tickee, no go outsidy, no votee (even if you vote bymail), and you’ll need a pass to walk your dog. Achtung, papiers plizz.
Awake your inner Fascist.
Demographics are irrelevant, except to racists who want a free Alberta to essentially be a whites preserve.
Not today Pecker head unme
What a racist statement you bigot. How oblivious you are to your own prejudice. At best you’re a failed comedian.
Shut up, take your bottle (or drugs of choice) and leave mature discussions to the adults.
I prefer “shush, the grown-ups are talking”.
[ctrl-C] and [ctrl-V] has worked well for UnMe, but I still don’t see a trace of a sapient behind the posts.
“In light of the recent Supreme Court’s decision, Alberta has decided to go one better and shut in every oil and gas pipeline to outside of Alberta and let the Federal Government and citizens out side of Alberta, find alternatives, toute de suite. You’ll have to pry our oil and gas outta our cold, dead hands to get the use of it. We’re doing our bit to save your planet. We of course shall not want. You want to move Chinah junk, grain, oil, cars, trucks, widgets, or your granny into the old folks abbatoir? We’re open to negotiation”
Jason Kenny, Premier of Alberta
https://www.alberta.ca/natural-gas-overview.aspx
https://www.cer-rec.gc.ca/en/data-analysis/energy-commodities/crude-oil-petroleum-products/report/2019-gasoline/index.html
I could go on. And on. Wait for it……Line 5 shut by Michigan. Suddenly propane is shut in. TS folks, for Albertan’s use only.
We’re Tronna on steroids.
And Edmonton’s Calgary on steroids. Dumbass Donnie can’t turn this city into a commie gulag fast enough.
Too many suffer battered spouse syndrome to make it happen. Too scared to face the unknown. Then there are the gas lighters who make the fearful even more uncertain that getting out is the right thing to do – we know who you are, asshole. So they want to stay in the known and continue taking our beatings.
That CERB check is their “blankie”.
The brainwashing has reached the supreme court Justice level. As everyone here has already known for quite some time… We’re f’d.
There was never brain-washing with this part of the elite.
It is one hand washing the other.
O.K., I agree with you. I didn’t even bother with reading any of the speculative news articles during the run-up to this decision, nor any articles about this decision. The decision was a foregone conclusion. The SCoC is joined to the with the Liberal party. The reason the Liberal government is so corrupt is that all elite institutions support the Liberals. There are no counter-balancing powers to put a check on the corrupt Liberals.
This is Canada. First decide on what the results will be and the corresponding votes will be provided.
The courts, ect are another in a long line of authority all ruling the way the kleptocrats want.
Canadians were asleep so long that they let this happen.
Ah yes…the time tested “POGG” ruling. I saw it coming a mile away.
Our SC is a mess.
Our SC is just applying our worthless constitution as it’s written. Said constitution basically lets the feds do whatever TF they want so long as they can provide a fig leaf of justification under POGG.
Completely unsurprising. This was always a hail-mary play by the provinces likely doomed to failure.
Thank you. People are putting the blame where it does not belong. I’d add that while I am against a carbon tax, air pollution is a valid federal concern.
>air pollution is a valid federal concern
CO2 is a harmless trace gas, not a pollutant, and anthropogenic CO2 has no effect on climate.
Yes. But try telling that to the Supreme Stooges. It is quite clear that people will believe anything. What is true and provable is irrelevant.
“anthropogenic CO2 has no effect on climate.”
That is factually wrong. We have the data, and there’s clearly an effect. Neither believing nor stating otherwise will change that.
Bull pucky, Unme. You have a corrupted computer program….GIGO.
Without CO2 the world would die.
Are you so simpleminded you do not see the difference between air pollution and CO2?
Be honest. Can you breathe unassisted?
mhb23re
No. UnMe is super cereal about the environment. That’s why UnMe has vowed to not exhale until this is overturned. Or not think about exhaling, according the Paris not doing and not thinking about it are the same thing.
The SC making decisions that defy logic? It’s amazing what adrenochrome does to the brain.
Deplorable decision.
The discussion misses the central issue. What actual good will the carbon tax do? If implemented as planned, what will be the impact on global temperature?
Temperature is not measured in tonnes of CO2 emissions.
One tonne of CO2 emissions raises global temperature by roughly 0.00000000000155⁰C. The feds tell us that if implemented as planned, emissions will be cut by 90 mega tonnes by 2022. Simple arithmetic shows the impact on temperature:
90,000,000 tonnes / year x 0.0000000000015⁰C / tonne = 0.0001395⁰C / year or 1⁰C per 7176 years.
Is this the best use of our limited resources?
The problem is our government buys the science and our judges have no clue the real science is.
Can’t have any experts if the science is collided to be bad.
And our Ontario politicians don’t listen anyways.
It’s about another level of enforcement, not whether something is right or practical.
None of those questions are relevant to the supreme court. Their responsibility is to decide if this is constitutional or not.
Actually, no-one knows the correlation of CO2 concentration with temperature. There is a conjecture that doubling CO2 concentration in the atmosphere will increase the temperature (anomaly?) by a measurable amount. The IPCC thinks this may be between 2.4 and about 8 degrees. Recent temperature records suggest it is lower, somewhere around 1 degree C.
So much potential thrown away for nothing. The “climate change crisis” will eventually be recognized as the greatest mistake of all time. Our government’s energy policies are destroying Canada.
We actually do know that there is a correlation between more CO2 and warmer atmosphere at least up to a point. The climate sensitivity does not appear to be on the high end of predictions and that’s what counts.
>We actually do know that there is a correlation between more CO2 and warmer atmosphere at least up to a point
We “know” no such thing. There is no measurable correlation between atmospheric CO2 and global mean temperature (itself a meaningless metric); all such correlations come from computer models that cannot reproduce historical results when fed historical data, making them worthless.
Again, wrong. There is a correlation.
https://reason.com/2006/09/22/confessions-of-an-alleged-exxo/
UnMe… I think you’re actually debating on this honestly (for once, usually I find you pithy)… but correlation is not causation as I’m sure you know. We should give zero fucks about the correlation as it pertains to public policy if we cannot understand the causation. And we clearly can’t, as every single prognostication from “teh scientists” has been wrong and continues to be unabated, and for those of us who read the underlying scientific debates closely, the debate on that causation continues and is far from settled. The GIGO models fudge factor all these things we don’t understand, and that’s how none of the models have been useful in predicting a damn thing.
Which I agree has little to do with the constitutionality question, which in and of itself is farcical.
Oh brother. There is nothing else to explain the warming we’ve seen. When all other explanations are ruled out, the one left is the one that works.
“There is nothing else to explain…” means that either aliens or the flying spaghetti monster done it. And that you’re (still) a fool.
In geologic history over the last 5 million years, CO2 levels are usually highest right before the ice sheets return. Oceans outgas when the surface temperature is higher, it’s usually a sign that the ice sheets are about to return. Year-round ice near both poles is abnormal in Earth’s history (rarely before the last 5 million years, when the Isthmus of Panama closed the equatorial current off and crippled the planet’s main heat pump). The 30 year average must bow before the millennial cycles.
I know. But it’s not about Climate. It’s about taxes and power. But you knew that already.
That is only if you accept the “central estimate” from the IPCC. Sesitivity according to many recent papers is overstated by 2-3 times, so I’ll see your 7,176 years, and raise you 10,000.
And … Obamakkare is a TAX. And the SCOTUS declared America can TAX whatever the hell it wants. Yes, the Federal Govt. can DESTROY your own personal healthcare … and FORCE you to pay for your neighbor’s … “transition” surgery and treatment … because it can TAX your ass with impunity.
3 Quebec judges by law.
3 from Ontario by tradition
3 from the test of Canada
All appointed
None scrutinized in a hearing.
The serf be dammed
Ok Kenny and Moe…grow some.t
Is anyone shocked that Liberal Party appointed socialist judges would vote for Adolf the Magnificent.
If you don’t want out of this post-nation mess via separation for AB at least then quit complaining about the effects of being tax sheep in a distant colony.
Baseless claims without evidence of harm with modeled mathematical projections from a government that cannot tell you how much they have spent in the last two years nor present a credible budget. But they are scientific geniuses!
Are you talking about Covid or climate?
Are you talking about Kan-eh-jians, here? Muh house and dope is legal. This climate crap is above their pay grade. They’ll only wake up when they’re herded off to Klimate Kamp. So solly, too late.
“Muh house and dope is legal. ”
Weed or soma, same difference.
Yeah, soma is available, soon to be compulsory.
Ask Lenina about it.
“Soma, the drug used widely by characters in Aldous Huxley’s “Brave New World,” symbolizes a replacement for religion in society. In this new world, soma allows people to escape from reality by thinking less critically. ”
Apparently, soma is so much used now, it reaches up supreme.
Gee, my Doc was hinting at some such elixir, the other day. I told him whiskey is my chosen “take a trip and never leave the farm”. Alice’s Restaurant, in case anyone forgot.
Social media and smart phone addiction is also a type of soma.
Oh, and I concur that whiskey can cure what ails ya, there, Arlo.
Yeah, you can see people every day, stumbling around holding their cellphone in front of them, completely somatized by it.
Yes.
mhb23re
So be it. But if you’re a Millennial or Gen Zer or progressive of any other group who voted for this nonsense, don’t ever whine to me again about how unaffordable all the ‘nice things’ are (e.g. urban housing, cars, travel, food, clothing etc.). You brought this on yourself. Suck it!
Stupid question time. What’s the Notwithstanding clause for?
Not this. It allows a legislature to keep an act in place even if the act has been found to violate certain specified provisions of the Charter.
This case turned on the national concern doctrine, which basically says if there’s a problem of national concern and the provinces are unable or unwilling to deal wiht it, then the feds can legislate subject to certain conditions. The SCOC effectively re-wrote the constitution to apply the doctrine in this case even though it was never intended to cover this matter and even though the legislation is clearly a matter of provincial jurisdiction.
I am still reading it but Justice Brown’s dissent is admirable, coherent and, in my view, correct. The implications of the ruling are vast but these judges don’t care cause they don’t follow the law or precedent and just find the way they want to find to achieve the result that accords to their political preferences.
I always laugh when I hear the phrase “Peace, Order and Good Government”. When does the “Good Government” aspect kick in?
“Peace, Order and Good Government”
What an embarrassing bullish!t tag line. That could have come from the Chicoms or soviets and would be equally applicable. Falls a bit short of “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness”. I cringe every time I hear it.
It’s quintessentially Canadian.
What else would you expect in a worthless liberal documented bromide penned by Cretin and father of the Spawn.
mhb23re
only to be used by Quebec, let’s not forget who brought in the flawed Charter . As a country Canada is now officially screwed, and with the election coming in June it appears all the liberal sheep cannot wait to endorse pretty boy again
To echo Ontario John, is anyone really surprised? I mean honestly, you think that the liarberal elite of central Canada would side with the colonies?
Now, what will Mr. Kenney do? Bluster? Posture? Tweet about always standing up for Albertans? In short; nothing. Nothing at all.
There is only one solution:
INDEPENDENCE!!!
Distant colony is right.
The only reason Canada exists is because upper and lower Canada hated the “Americans” more than they hated each other.
But they quickly figured out by working together that can rob the distant colonies of their wealth.
It’s long past due that we fight for freedom.
““There’s a monument that stands at the Alamo, its there not because they won…but because they fought.”
Or only ACE card is Michigan blocking Line 5.
Why let Michigan have all the fun? Have a nice press conference as it gets cemented shut permanently. Go on at length about how we in Western Canada are ready to do our part for climate change. Or at the least have the AB govt announce a multi-year environmental review (how long did the ones last for Transcanada, Keystone, etc? better double that to be safe)
Good thinking.
The SC is merely the top end of the legal industry bottom end killer-elites. Get rid of all the mold. Go WEXIT.
5 of the 9 were appointed by Harper, Another example of a lost opportunity during the Harper Years, that and the ceebeecee, Canadian pipelines vs. importing crude from middle East regimes, etc…
Harper trying to play nice and win over the Media, by not appointing Conservative thinking judges. What did that get him,,, what did it get Canadians. (as if any Liberal government would appoint a Conservative.
Even if hell froze over, Liberals would never sit a Conservative Judge.
The West is doomed, the resource industries are doomed, more jobless = more wanting UBI.
The country will be so devastated before any changes might happen, but personally I think the more devastation the more socialism we’ll get.
I still believe the only way the Carbon Tax will ever end, is if would become a visible tax, where people will see it on their receipts. An accumulative total from each of the steps in manufacturing and shipping, showing just how much tax is in the cost of the item they buy(including groceries)
“….by not appointing Conservative thinking judges.”
As far as justice goes, the judges in a strict sense are independent thinkers.
Other than that, yeah, right.
Harper wasn’t ‘playing nice’, he was just stupid and strategically and philosophically vacuous. He sucked.
The best way to save Canada is with massive amounts of immigration to the tune of tens of millions. It’s the only sure-fire way to save Canada from Canadians!
We should bring in a billion Chinese and get them to serve you as lunch.
I hope you got some extra fat on you.
Yummy yum.
Soylent Green is UnMeeeeeeeeeee.
*yawn*
Worthless anus. Even your trolling sucks
mhb23re
..if would become a visible tax, where people will see it on their receipts
..accumulative total from each of the steps in manufacturing and shipping
Bingo !
Its a reintroduction of the old (outlawed) hidden manufacturers tax that was abolished by Mulroney.
and replaced by the dreaded GST.
Correct me if wrong but isn’t it illegal to reintroduce such a tax without first abolishing the GST.
Laws were enacted to make the GST (visible), replacing the invisible manufacturers form of taxation forever.
Harper was/is a Globalist. Bilderberger-attending and member of the Council of 300. To say that he was working in the interests of Canada is laughable. He served the Davos and City of London folks quite well. By serving them well, he served us poorly.
Scum.
Impose the tax and then give it back with a point of sale rebate.
The fact you keep voting for premiers/parties/MLAs who refuse to use not withstanding under any circumstance. That is all you need to know.
You keep voting for people, who have already surrendered, before they even set foot on the battle field. The continual expressions of surprise used to be funny.
If I were to run? Here is my platform.
not withstanding to bypass federal environmental reviews, begin IMMEDIATE construction of nuclear power plants, pipelines, …
not withstanding to impose immediate tax of $100,000 per ton for all rail and road traffic transiting the province
not withstanding to open boarder to American milk exports, and end dairy cartel in Saskatchewan
not withstanding to create unilateral trade deals; cut the feds out entirely
not withstanding to kick CRA out; the feds will no longer have authority to impose taxes on Sask citizens
Here is the simplest of reasons why those in robes are wrong and do politics.
The federal government makes laws for Canada, it does not make laws for individual provinces as it sees fit.
How is it that Q-bec made language law and the federal government, knowing that it was completely wrong went along with it?
How is it that Q-bec has different health care laws that oppose the federal law?
The federal government know that it can’t make a law applied to a specific province, hence federal.
They of course can make a law, however corrupt, to scam money off the plebes as in carbon taxes if it applies to the whole country at once.
They can’t single out a province for such.
The bottom feeders, with their lingo gymnastics, apparently can dance in circles around some justice confab and get them to do what they want.
They are completely wrong.
Watch for them to get a good raise.
To those that care – the east should vote PPC and west should vote Maverick. Or alternatively we should all vote NDP and hasten the collapse.
To really speed it up vote ConMunist.
That or The Green Party.
So basically the Supreme Court of Canada bought the lie, hooklineandsinker. Big Surprise!!! Just another extension of the Liberal party of Canada.
The same liberals who sell a carbon tax using the argument that corporations WILL react to higher energy costs by using less carbon, will in the next breath make the argument that higher minimum wage laws are good because corporations WON’T react to higher labor costs by employing less labor.
The SCOC is the backend of Trudeau government while the CBC is the front end. The CBC is the propaganda and campaigning appendage and the SCOC can use or make up from the Trudeau (not the people’s) constitution whatever they want to further the “progressive” Trudeau state.
As for western separation, I doubt that it is demographically or politically viable. I support it but just like actual conservatism in Canada, it’s likely a lost cause, almost as lost as libertarianism.
I think that any attempt to get western separation off the ground will be immediately branded by the Libs and their lapdog MSM as a racist white rebellion and it will be put down as brutally as they can. One of the core tenets of socialism is that no one is allowed to leave.
If you are in favor of Western Separation, end your relationship with friends, family and businesses that support the Feds.
If that is too strong for you, then you are not ready for Western Separation.
How did the court decide that Man was causing climate change, and that it was certain to be bad?
1) That wasn’t the point of the decision 2) The data is clear that it’s caused by man and has downsides (albeit not catastrophic ones)
The data is clear?
The globe has warmed sporadically at an average rate of 1.4 degrees per century since 1979, according to satellite based measurements.
What percentage of this was man made? What explains the warming in the first half of the last century with relatively stable CO2? Why was the warming sporadic when CO2 increases were steady? What explains the decline from circa 1950 to circa 1970?
Stop using logic to argue with an asshoe who just comes on this site to stir up 5hit. It what he lives for so deprive him of it.
Just ignore him and he’ll soon enough go away . . . or not. Who cares? Every time I see that’s it’s a comment by the asshoe I just pass it by and let him rant to himself. Life’s too short to let asshoes like him get your Irish up.
“What percentage of this was man made?”
The overwhelming majority. It’s simply too fast to be explained any other way. CO2 was not stable in the first half of the last century, and I’m pretty sure aerosol/particle pollution decreased warming a little bit. There was no decline from 1950-1970.
Oh, stop lying. No one’s buying your horseshit.
CO2 is a very weak greenhouse gas by comparison to others. Water vapor alone has triple the greenhouse effect of CO2, and there’s a lot more H2O(g) in the atmosphere than CO2.
The CO2 scam was always a transparent lie. And you know it.
“CO2 is a very weak greenhouse gas by comparison to others.”
Yes, but it’s level is increasing a great deal due to largely human activity, with some measurable increase in temperatures resulting.
The real question is whether or not this will cause feedback loop by putting more water vapor into the atmosphere. Currently it appears this will not be the case.
“…it’s simply too fast to be explained any other way”.
Argumentum ad ignorantiam, speaking of fundamentally unserious.
Just because we cannot explain current “observations” – which have been massaged and manipulated repeatedly in the underlying data sets, which I think you’re well aware of – does not mean the only possible explanation is ManBearPig.
“… and I’m pretty sure…” — you’d make a great climate huckster.
That’s not ‘Argumentum ad ignorantiam’ that’s logical deduction. Not that I would expect any or many to know the difference around here.
CET says that the longest term of temperature growth at the highest growth rate was 1690-1730. Long before CO2 levels started increasing.
That’s part of why adjusting the past is so important to the catastrophists. To the ignorant, the catastrophist’s claims are ringing an alarum that mean full control of the masses must be achieved to avoid destruction.
You missed my last post on “Calamitous Klimatte Change”? It was directed at you.
As a retired Professional Geologist anyone pronouncing on Klimatte Change as “catastrophic” has their head up their asre, including some Geologists I’ve known. You have no clue and you can expound as you wish on the subject til the cows come home, but the net result is pure bullshit. It was warmer when the Minoans ruled, Rome ruled and when The Vikings waded ashore at L’Anse aux Meadows, NFLD, plus settled in Greenland (see any there today?). No ’cause it’s colder. Nope, I checked personally for you. Double nope. The data is rigged, so dorks like you can prance about screeching “the sky is falling”.
I never claimed it was catastrophe.
The MWP was a regional event. Greenland was not ‘green’ when it was settled (outside of some coastal areas). That name was just Erik The Red’s sales pitch. The ‘Greenland’ hokum outs you as fundamentally unserious.
The MWP was a regional event.
I see, so the Minoan and Roman warm Periods were regional, too? How come they show up in Greenland ice cores? CO2 has nothing to do with it and you know that. I’d worry Nitrogen is getting out of hand, you’re a prime example.
Actually, it was more red than green. Ever been there o’ Knowledgeable One?
“I never claimed it was catastrophe. ”
Yes you did, August 4th, 2018 @ 4:29 PM, three other times subsequently. You only changed your tune the last two weeks. I checked.
PO’ed, that’s cheating! Part of being a Progressive is never having to say “I learned something today” or “I was wrong”. Their religion prevents the first, their narcissism prevents the second.
The second thing about being a Progressive is that you must be open-minded to the point that your brain falls out.
When the Mann case proved otherwise? This seems a flimsy excuse for limiting liberty, serving what public interest?
How is this necessary and where is the wide agreement? Hasn’t it been proved otherwise, taxing for no environmental benefit?
With Canada at 2% of emissions, what can’t be used as a flimsy excuse for limiting our liberty? Covid? Asked and answered.
Or is the world’s interest. Is it national socialism or international socialism. Imo, that was ruse; power of taxation is unlimited.
Except by voters, or tea partiers or Canada’s mini-action against Dion’s minority coalition of irresponsible government.
I’m amazed people still think they’ll retract their claws at some point. Some may (BC just relaxed religious services), but most cannot resist the urge to feed their addiction to misspent money that appears a good thing because it gives them power.
Well grok, Man is causing all the climate change arguments, but I doubt any of the five hundred plus volcanoes on this planet give a shit!
Good point, all of Mankind produces just 3% of all Co2 emissions on planet Earth.
We are insignificant, Canada is off the scale insignificant with 2% of that 3%.
Look it up.
Agreed,
“The SCOC is the backend of Trudeau government while the CBC is the front end. The CBC is the propaganda and campaigning appendage and the SCOC can use or make up from the Trudeau (not the people’s) constitution whatever they want to further the “progressive” Trudeau state.”
Just to add that the cbc propaganda works on the members of the scoc as well as those who chose to listen to the cbc.
I think we can expect the cost of the carbon tax to increase accordingly when the latest blockage of oil transportation kicks in shortly. The grounding of the ship in the Suez is already causing problems. Look at the Marine Traffic site.
https://www.marinetraffic.com/en/ais/home/centerx:31.9/centery:30.7/zoom:9
When you are dependent on foreign oil in Canada your are likely to be held hostage periodically to foreign interests.
It’s going to take a lot of excavation to get the front of that ship out of the side bank wall.
Expect a week pulling that thing out.
More. See the size of the excavator vs The Ship? How much is that bow up/embedded on the sloped canal side? That’s 200,000 tonnes vs a yard sized bucket…maybe. How much is that wind pushing any progress to oblivion? Unload some dead weight, or get the cutting torches/welders out. The load is stable right now, unload it first, if you can.
Better fill up the gas tank today.
According to Dan McTeague fuel is going up tomorrow about 4 cents a litre and because of problems with that container ship blocking the Suez it may go up again another 4.5 cents.
Add in Blackies fuel tax on April 1 Fools Day of 2.5 cents and we be nearing an extra 11 cents in a few days.
Get set for an spring early May price of $ 1.40 CAN / LITRE.
I figure by Xmas we should be near $ 2.00/litre.
He figures your heating bill by 2030 will be an extra $2000/year that’s for NatGas and Propane .
And Electricity will be going up exponentially too.
Ontario can’t afford the $ 6.5 billion a year subsidy.
Inflation should be raging by Xmas.
Lots of financial pain coming.
Price of oil was $60.73 yesterday, price today (even with the Suez plugged) $58.46.
Go figure.
We must all pay more to heat our homes this winter, because it will save the planet or something.
This result was a foregone conclusion. “Let’s take em to court” was nothing but a convenient surrogate for other more effective actions that would have required guts. But it allows gasbags like Ford to now point the finger of blame elsewhere and to say “We fought the good fight”.
Ford’s been compromised some how.
He was never like this, it was his brother Rob who followed his conservative views.
Either the Club has something on him ( likely ) or his family has been threatened.
Damn is there no politicians out there with balls of steel and resolve ?
( rhetorical ) We know the answer to that.
We are soooo fooked.
Or he’s not very bright and kinda stupid. Seems more likely than your conspiracy theories borne of victim complex.
“Ford’s been compromised some how. He was never like this ”
Doublecross Doug showed his commitment to principles before the election when he did a complete reversal on his statement that some development should be permitted in the GTA greenbelt.
YES THANK YOU. That was the real betrayal-and incompetency. I mean if you’re not willing to take some heat for a controversial policy proposal, don’t propose it. What would be even better would be actually sticking with it. Same thing with the coal mining betrayal by Kenney.
I think he is in over his head, and the bureaucrats are just leading him around by the nose. He is a weak leader at a difficult time. Others are making decisions for him.
Who are we talking about?
Ontario Premier Doug Ford
My attempt at sarcasm failed. I can think of another “leader” who is completely and utterly out of their depth and is being guided by bureaucrats and handlers. Matter of fact, I don’t think he would even be a very good part-time, substitute drama teacher
Did anyone expect any different? The Supreme Court is made up of failed lawyers. They were appointed based on their skill and ability to raise funds for the Liberal Party. They will side with their benefactors every time. Even cases where they “rule against” the government are set up to benefit the Liberals in one way or another.
Given that Canada’s electrical grid is 83% non-(Co2) emitting (63% hydro, 19% nuclear, 1% unreliables). the primary tax target of the Spawn’s government (and nationwide idiot complex) policies are heating and transportation for one of the coldest and most spread-out nations on the planet. If Canadians could scrape together enough brain cells to vote for people who had Canadian interests instead of those of the UN and US-funded hysteria pimping foundations, we would see policies that might encourage or ignore potential warming rather than the faulty belief system that our suicidal actions make any difference to the planet’s climate. The two most populated nations in the world are literally “pouring the coal” to industrialize while we debate the legalities of methods of deindustrialization and impoverishment.
Canadians need education, not indoctrination. Best start with the CBC.
Be careful with nation-wide figures like that. There’s a sharp divide in Canada between provinces who are blessed with ample hydroelectric resources like Manitoba (97%) and Quebec (95%) and provinces who are all but bereft of it like Alberta (2.8%) and Nova Scotia (8.7%). A carbon tax slapped onto such provinces will be hugely disproportionate in impact, not that Justin cares. He hates AB & SK (13% hydro) anyway and NS is just collateral damage.
This is exactly the point. The Carbon Tax is designed to have the bulk of costs borne by the West again. It is an NEP hidden in the cloak of “caring” for the planet. canerder is all about Quebec. Le Dauphin even said so himself. He clearly stated in an interview (in french) that canerder belongs to Quebec.
Great! They can have it. We need to leave
CO2 is only .04% of the atmosphere. Of that, only 3.9% is man made. Once you understand that, it should be perfectly obvious that AGW is a fiction.
No it’s not. That doesn’t change the calculus of global warming in the slightest, and I have no idea where that 3.9% number comes from. I doubt you do.