As Lorne Gunter points out in this concise op-ed, “fixing” the climate with carbon taxes is about as far from win-win as you can get. If you think housing prices are crazy now, just wait until these carbon taxes are fully worked into the cost of a foundation.
Trudeau’s Thursday pledge works out to a reduction from 732 annual megatonnes of greenhouse gases to 439 megatonnes.
To achieve that, not only would Canada have to shut down Alberta’s oil and gas industry, but also the entire country’s transportation sector – cars, trucks, semis, school buses and delivery vans.
And probably any construction that uses cement. A lot of emissions are produced in making cement.
I can see the way.
We can meet this pledge made by our most honourable prime Minister.
Abolish the federal Government.
And decimate the Provincial Governments every year for 10 years.
That would make “Climate Change” a nonissue.
Problem Solved.
And once we stop wasting all our energy and resources paying these useless people and heating their offices,flying them across the planet and polluting the airways with their “wisdom”.
Why the “problem of man made global warming” or what ever it is is gone.
Along with the parasites who are exploiting us.
Eliminating the emissions of just the federal nitwits would definitely turn Canada into a net absorber of the Dread CO2 and cure the Dread Covid 19 at the same time.
Now that would be a “Win Win”.
If only we had more racists in Canada to blame, like the DeMarxists.
Not that the boy blunder isn’t giving it the old supply teacher try.
What’s better than a false narrative bereft of facts or logic?
Two false narratives wrapped around each other.
If only we were taxed more, life would be better.
The conclusion of our dumbed down education system and media buffoons.
How tragic to watch government offer up solutions that caused the problems in the first place.
Like poverty and housing prices, while locking down society, waiting out vaccines, which they fail to deliver, like health care.
And apathetic voters say they’re all the same. Maybe they’re right with O’Toole’s pathetic 905 carbon pay to play ploy.
It seems an immutable law. In good times we elect progressives/socialists/statists. In bad times we get rid of conservatives.
It is all bullshit by our politicians and media.
They want you off of carbon monoxide producing products.
Any one of these products will kill you in a enclosed confined space.
Can you name any that wouldn’t kill you?
Our technological development failed to try and get off these products.
It sure would be nice to be able to read an article in the Sun without having to see Blackie’s arrogant, narcissistic face about eight bloody times.
Off topic, but is anyone aware of a petition against Bill C 10?
A disenfranchised friend would like to know.
Enjoy your day as best as you can before your daddy takes your T Bird away.
“And probably any construction that uses cement. A lot of emissions are produced in making cement.”
And millions of tons of asphalt to pave thousands of miles of road and thousands of acres of parking lots.
Watcha gonna use as a replacement for that?
Bullsheet??
Once The Great Reset takes effect, travel of any kind will be unnecessary, unless one happens to be part of the ruling elite.
Well he couldn’t let the doddering American puppet out-virtue signal him.
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“Next, from today until January 1st, 2030, when Biden’s plan calls for our emissions to be down to 3,000 MT of CO2 per year, there are about 454 weeks.
And that means we need to find sites, do the feasibility studies, get the licenses and the permits, excavate, manufacture, install, test, and commission two 2.25 gigawatt nuclear power plants EVERY WEEK UNTIL 2030, STARTING THIS WEEK.
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Conclusion? This is just another liberal ecoloonical brilliant idea. This plan is just like your kid putting on a cape, insisting he can soar through the air like Superman, and jumping off the roof …
… it’s never gonna fly, and someone’s gonna get hurt bad …”
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2021/04/21/the-latest-co2-fantasy/
Who said that the natives of Chinada Province will be suffered to live in a house fit to keep pigs in after the Great Reset?
Your grandchildren will live in a room without bath in a dangerous apartment block—as in so sloppily constructed it’s at risk of structural failure without warning, never mind any infestation with Trudeaupian thugs.
And they’ll be expected to be grateful they live there and not in a forced labour camp or in some godforsaken village without electricity, running water or roads that are passable in winter.
Only CCP members will get to live in real houses, and only their little emperors will get to drive cars—using Canada’s empty highways as drag strips to run in the sports cars Father gave them for their 16th birthdays.
It is just a bald faced lie. It is a broken promise with no intention of keeping.
The only good news in that, is the promise that Justin Trudeau will resign as PM before 2030.
Wasn’t the budget supposed to be balanced by 2019?
That moron could promise the sun wasn’t gonna rise tomorrow and the CBC would praise him for making the sun come up the next day; and what’s more, canucks would turn out in droves to re-elect him.
That is why Blackie wants everyone to have jobs planting all those trees he promised. They will provide log cabins for everyone to live in, and everyone will spend their leisure time waving feathers and chanting to the sacred tree frog.
The Growing Canada’s Forests (GCF) program is the Government of Canada’s response to its commitment to plant an additional two billion trees by 2030. – As announced some time in 2019.
About a year later:
The Liberals pledged 2 billion trees over 10 years, but none planted yet
Seen any tree planters at work yet?
Not classed as essential and they’re all locked down.
Besides that, hard to plant in frozen ground.
What? You mean it’s still frozen, even after all that “climate change”?
The other factor in this form of virtue signaling is that assuming maximum density planting (2 metre spacing), you need 800,000 hectares of vacant arable site-prepped land to plant that number of seedlings on or 50% larger than the area of PEI.
But John with no chainsaws how are we to cut the logs?
Will we have to hire Lizzie May to chew them down for us?
Is there any Canadian politician or political party that endorses withdrawing from the Paris Agreement | UNFCCC?
In the upcoming federal election I want to be able to cast a vote . But, the Liberals, Conservatives and the NDP have made that impossible. I will not vote for any politician or political party that supports the Paris Agreement | UNFCCC.
Jim, I concur 100%. The Paris Accord, like anything else attached to the UN, is corrupt to its core. I’m a life-long (small – ‘c’) conservative and will never support any party that thinks that’s a good idea. Trudeau, O’Toole, Singh and the Green leader – whoever that is, are all idiots. Hopefully, Alberta’s Jay Hill and his Maverick Party have more sense.
If Jays /Mavericks plan is to run “federal” candidates then he and his reform supporters learned nothing from past experience.
What’s the definition of insanity??
MAX.
Yes, he might not get elected again. Yes, it might elect POS TURD again.
Yes, it will hurt the so-called conservatives, but they deserve it for turning their backs against the base. EFF THEM.
If there isn’t a separatist candidate running in my riding I’ll be voting PPC again.
Me too!!!
Just take this one simple thing: ‘A lot of emissions are produced in making cement.’
The idiot could not understand this if he spent a weak looking.
He may wonder, how is this, what is this, its hard, where did this come from, who done it? …. and all the idiotic questions that one can come up with, well, give him some slack …. not all.
The idiot Libs also plan on every Canadian borrowing immensely on their homes to retrofit windows, insulation, doors, etc, and build solar panels on your roof.
Of course, we will ALL do it voluntarily, to a person.
Just like we will all get knocked up by the dose of Woohoo goo.
Libs are prime virtue signallers, but, their history suggests they never live up to their grandiosity. The danger is that they go full Nazi and ban all ICE vehicles at some point. Their inner totalitarian is just aching to punish normal Canadians, in favour of urban millenials, Quebecers that hate Canada, and Gubmint cheque deadbeats in the Maritimes.
We can live in environmentally-friendly mud huts. We must save the polar bears!
Even if you aren’t convinced, like me, that the threat from climate change is overblown. (The science is far from settled.) Even if you think humankind has to act quickly and decisively to prevent global catastrophe, the engineering just doesn’t exist to replace all carbon-based fuels quickly and affordably.
Lorne LORNE for cry’s sake stop saying ‘climate change’. Stick with ‘global warming’ or even better “catastrophic human-caused global warming’. The switch to the even more bogus term ‘climate change’ is a tacit admission that Co2 is not an issue. Elevated Co2, a GHG, was supposed to cause ‘global warming’. The public looked out its collective window and saw none. The greeniacs know this and have cold-shouldered the term.
IOW, stop buttressing the enemy by engaging in technical discussions of the whys and hows of emmissions reductions. Emmissions are are immaterial.
THE CLIMATE DOESN’T NEED FIXING.
We can’t manufacture any of the so called “green” energy producing equipment with out fossil fuels. not one.
I recall that the recently commissioned cement plant in Quebec produces more CO2 than all of Alberta’s oilsands production. Am I correct?
Cc – those emissions from the cement plant do not count. No need for environmental assessment. The same as the asperation to bring in a million people a year. No impact on emissions.
Concerned, Surely one million people farting will definitely have an impact on emissions. Come to think of it, a million more breathing out C02 must have some effect as well. A simple fix would be to “NOT” let em in! Right? Why will bringing one million more emission criminals from third world countries be helpful? Answer, by sock monkey logic, moving them from their places of origin to the west will at least effect the quantity of emissions (planetary balance equalization) from around the planet somewhat. See, liberal logic is soooo wonderful….. right?
Gerry – no worries- they will all be housed in igloos – no increased energy demands and the extra ice will keep the oceans from flooding. Not to mention that we will have replacement with people who want to live the true Canadian lifestyle. Bonus is it’s 1 million a year they are shopping for. It will be a breeze to cut those emissions as long as the printing press does not break. Oh well, we can outsource that to China also!
They forgot to move the goalposts again this time. This timeline requires massive changes that even if possible must happen faster than the government permitting process.
I say the prime minister needs to lead by example on this one.
Broadcast live, the vintage Mercedes Coupe his step dad bequeathed to him being run through a crusher.
Till then it’s just another excuse to impose more taxes, create onerous regulations and grow government all for the premise that mankind has the power to stop the tides from rising.
Actions speak louder than words ….
By their actions, I believe the Canadian and Provincial governments are crushing working class Canadians through carbon taxes and unaffordable housing – just to name a couple of items. Next election, we need to toss all the bums out!
Lorne, are you suggesting that the Spawn is innumerate or a lying piece of shit? I’m shocked!
or?
I am sure glad he took on all that debt so I don’t have to!
Why do you all think that there is a national carbon tax? Why do you think it is to be increased regularly up to $170 a tonne or whatever amount it is projected to get to?
They have no intention of actually REDUCING atmospheric CO2 output in Canada by any appreciable amount. As far as I am aware Canada’s raw CO2 output has been rising since the inception of the original Kyoto Accord.
The Libs are going to buy carbon credits. Canadians are going to have our air taxed and the money sent to China, maybe some to India or some despot in Africa or somewhere else that is not in Canada.
It’s all monstrously evil and the great mass of Canadians (and western populations in general) aren’t paying any attention.
Yes. It’s about wealth redistribution.
More precisely, the re-distribution of your wealth, not that of the ruling class.
Abolish the Federal Government.
After 14 months of Dread Covid Theatre,every taxpayer can see how utterly useless and dangerous these fools are.
If mankinds Carbon Dioxide output is the “most important Problem ” we face in the Federal Fools World,then we no longer need their services.
After all in a Bankrupt country with every civic institution infested with corrupt cling ons,we must “Address Climate Change”.
Not reduce government and its enormous waste and spending.
Not fix our buggered healthcare system.
Not Balance our budget.
Not defend our borders.
Not address the cruelty and systemic racism of the Canadian Apartheid System.
Not repair our crumbling roads and bridges.
Not restore our natural rights and explain fully why the fools figured we have none.
Nope it is Climate Change..
OK I will buy in.
If Climate Change is BAD,I want the climate of yesterday,Ice miles deep covering the majority of what is now Canada.
Restore the Ice fields.
Or is some “Climate” more ideal than another?
How about we restore the Climate of 1.4 million years ago?
Where Swamp Cyprus 5 meters across the stump grew on Axel Heiberg Island.
Which “climate ” is the perfect one?
Or what about the “Climate” of the year that destroyed the Franklin Expedition?
I have a “Climate Change” I want to see.
A political climate where we no longer tolerate stupidity and waste.
Where evidence based policy making is restored and Policy based evidence manufacturers are sentenced and hung as a matter of course.
A “climate” where treason is rewarded.
Now there is some “Climate Change” I can get behind.
For any fool who still maintains “Government is a needed and beneficial” part of civilization,deserves to live in Confederated Can Ahh Duh.
I will be moving to the friendly climate of Independent Buffalo,formerly the Milkcow of confederation.
Without moving an inch.