The internals must be dripping with blood.
Good catch, there – After years of telling us that most households are getting more money back from the carbon tax than they pay, Trudeau today announced a three year pause of his carbon tax on home heating oil to make life more affordable…
@dantappin – So why not then a natural gas pause also? . Which electoral districts primarily use heating oil?
Wait, I thought the world was ending. What are a few inconvenienced hicks and rubes in the grand calculus of saving the planet from we human scum?
Looks like the envirowhackos are running scared.
“Looks like the envirowhackos are running scared.”
No, they’re probably just annoyed. The Liberals are running scared.
The Animal Farm of home heating fossil fuels … some fuels are MORE exempted from tax than others.
Gawwwwwd … Your government doesn’t even TRY to hide their bias
Dead-on, Kenji!
Eastern Canada (some northerners) token “vote-trying-to-buy Trudeau move, as only old single houses have oil tanks in the basement.
Even newish 1996 homes there do not have oil heating. I was there.
A lot of eastern oil is imported from non- or quasi-Canadian companies with questionable reputations.
No one in the west uses oil for home heating, even though we have lots of it.
Conflict heating oil. Because your PM hangs with the Muzzies.
“No one in the west uses oil for home heating, even though we have lots of it.”
Not true. Lots of people in rural areas, especially older homes, still use furnace oil (basically a form of diesel I believe?). Their only real alternative is propane, if they don’t have Natural Gas piping in their area.
We do have it around here but i still see the furnace oil guy making regular home deliveries.
(Sunshine Coast, BC)
https://www.columbiafuels.com/residential/overview/
I stand corrected. Should be few homes west are oil-heated.
Correct, Dan; if you look on your heating oil bill, it says “#2 Diesel”.
Oh wait; you likely don’t have a heating oil bill. I know if gas heat was available here, gas is what we’d use – ye-olde heat pump goes-through $500 of electricity a month in the coldest part of the year (or at least it did last year – rates are up this year), and it doesn’t even get all that cold here.
Not a huge victory but a modest step in the right direction.
Not really. It’s a vote-buying scheme aimed squarely at Atlantic Canada where all the oil-fired home furnaces are located. It’s a sure and certain sign that Justatwat or his handler Katie Telford are getting desperate at his collapsing public support. While an election is about two years away, right now the Liberals could be wiped out and the NDP vanish completely as a political party except for a few strongholds in Lotus-land.
A victory? No, it’s just the technique of a torturer loosening the thumbscrews just a trifle and saying, “See what a nice fellow I am?”
I’d be willing to bet, that 2 things happen before the new year, first Trudeau resigns due to pressure from the caucus and the back room boys. And second, the libs call an election hoping that tossing the spawn will give the a minor boost.
I don’t think Trudeau’s ego will allow him to resign.
He’ll go down with the ship. He truly believes he’ll defeat Poliviere.
All three of you fellows have ideas worth considering. But remember one thing: it’s Katie Telford who tells him what to do.
Agree, Mr. K
“An evil man will burn his own nation to the ground to rule over the ashes.
If Trudeau resigns, it will be about 1 year before an election will take place.
I agree that it is disingenuous cynical vote buying, but it is also a reflection of his position. The mere fact that he has to compromise here means two things. One that he is so weak he can’t hide it, and two that now Cons can run on “he just promised to f*** you as soon as the election is over” in Maritimes, and on “he is cynically pondering to his base while you are paying for it” elsewhere. Either way it is bad optics for him for little temporary gain.
I would argue it’s not even a small step. What is needed is a “ reformation of manners “ in Canada’s politics, to use the phrase of William Wilberforce, who ended Britain’s slave trade. And to achieve that, Canada’s entire woke public culture must change.
This is merely a very guilty politician trying to escape punishment for his many derelictions.
And, the best part, it won’t save a single seat for him.
until there is a carbon tax on the Queerbec cement plants nothing matters. Imagine burning calcium carbonate for free
Oil heating is most common in eastern Canada:
https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/pub/11-526-s/2013002/t002-eng.htm
Natural gas is common in Ontario and points west. It’s most popular in Alberta.
If I was cynical — which of course I’m not — I would suspect that their were political motivations for pausing oil but not natural gas carbon taxes.
It’s almost like they’re trying to piss us off.
In times past I would have been overjoyed by such news but now I merely wonder if the elites are letting the other half of the Uniparty win to give us the illusion of change.
“and offer new programs Trudeau said will help rural Canadians switch to electric heat pumps.” Do trust he’s also going to offer new programs to ensure rural Canadians have extremely reliable electricity. Or doesn’t he realize that – after a storm – it’s generally the rural areas that get their power back last?
Doesn’t he realize that heat pumps only work down to -5 C or so, unless you shell out for a really expensive Mitsubishi or other Japanese made heat pumps, then they might work down to -15 C. He does know that winter in Canada is usually much colder than that everwhere except lower Vancouver Island and the lower Mainland? Is he talking about Ground Sourced heat pumps i.e. Geothermal – but that is even more expensive and requires more land to lay out the closed loops. He wouldn’t be using an open loop system and screw up the water table would he! Is he supplying these fictional heat pumps with intermittent energy from his wind and solar farms so that they only work part time?
What a strange coincidence with the NP running a story about Sophie’s Moist yesterday. Almost like someone harvested the information for them…
Oh here is your wallet back, hillbilly! But remember we have plans to double down so will need it back after election. Now shut up and vote liberal, it’s for your own good
Andrew Coyne Hardest Hit.
The Bong is going to try and buy his way back into favour.
Fwenchie heats his shack with propane. That’ll be the next exemption. Quebek wants in.
Wonder if the Bong is going to do anything for guys who heat with wood? haw ha
*cough* Irving Oil *cough*
A quick Google search shows that 2.7% of Canadian homes are heated with oil. When you factor in the putrid scheme of not bringing the reduction in until April, after the winter months, shows just how much of a scam this proposal is.
Alberta heats with natural gas, Eastern Canada heats with oil. Eastern Canda’s votes are worth two to one compared to Albeta’s votes. This is a no-brainer for Trudeau. Our Constitution sucks.
– and gas won’t come to Atlantic Canada. Three reasons – 1) no pipeline from the gas supply in western Canada; 2) sparse population density, long way between houses; and 3) lots ‘n lots of good hard Laurentian Shield granite just under the grass, and NOBODY wants to cut local gas pipelines through that stuff!
The imbeciles within the #Libranos know they haven’t any votes to gain in the west by exempting nat gas as well.
Is it fair of the federal gov’t to favor one area of the country over another? Why yes, that’s what tier 2 Canada is built upon. Having 1 region hating another, and the federal gov’t fellating one area over another.
Keep in mind, this is only a “pause” and their intent remains to decide for the country how we’ll live our lives, how we’ll heat our homes, what Canadians will be permitted to eat, and any and all other aspects of your life.
Screw you Canada, your Milch Cow is dying and you’re too stupid to realise it, nor stop enabling it.
Separation of AB/Sask.
Shouldn’t Hans Gruber be the one making this announcement? It’s his portfolio.
Someone should check on him. Maybe check on Cath McKenna too. They could be killing themselves with screech over this.
RNrn
Kinsella is job-hunting again
Project Cactass 2023
RNrn
He’s a little old to be wife hunting again.
You’d think kinsella would have learned a lesson from that harridan he was married to.
Never again buddy, never again
“I am temporarily pausing the noxious burden I imposed on you. It’s still on the books and can be re-imposed at whim. Praise me, the best Prime Minister ever, for moving heaven and earth to make your lives better.”
Pierre Poilievre commentary…
https://twitter.com/PierrePoilievre/status/1717640558049423794
Its a good thing his divorce isn’t affecting him yet in the polls or he’d be in real trouble.
Oh, wait.
Not really a victory, just electioneering for those who still use heating oil, which is largely concentrated in Quebec and points east…
almost makes me want to fill up the oil tanks again
AH! Keeping the Maritimes in the pocket!
There’s 1600+ comments on the CBC site.
Most are mocking Trudeau.
To me, it looks like there’s hundreds of unique posters that hate Trudeau.
There’s about 6 pro Trudeau posters there, spewing the same nonsense.
Fat lot of good this is going to do for the Maritimes when the powder-keg in the Mid-East blows up. The Yanks are already counter-attacking in Syria after the attacks on American bases there. The oil embargos on Iran will now be resurrected and the price of oil will skyrocket. The Greenies and Just Stop Oil crowd are going to be ecstatic and the temperatures are about to fall all over the Northern Hemisphere, those are just the facts. The Scottish Electrical Board just issued a warning to Scots and Northern Englanders to make preperations for power outages this winter. I would suggest that now might be a good time to invest in portable gas appliances and fuel, think propane Coleman Stoves and heaters in the Canadian Maritimes or in Britain Primus stoves and kerosene fuel. This may be the winter when the Eastern B*stards Freeze in the Dark.
Let’s hope they do
This past summer I visited my daughter and her family in Dieppe NB. As I drove around the neighborhoods I noticed most homes had heat pumps, as did my daughter. Most people had or were in the process of converting to heat pumps through a federal subsidy program. Shediac was the same, the houses and cottages had mostly converted to heat pumps. If my small observation was any indication, not many homes are still heated with oil, but the people will still be hammered by the carbon taxes this winter as they fire up their heat pumps
Ah, Warren Cantstandya. He may be right twice a day, but he’s still a broken clock.