… and the horse you rode in on…

17 Replies to “… and the horse you rode in on…”

1. We need more of this from the provinces.

   1. In this particular case Sask has its own Crown Corp as the sole delivery of gas. They can do what they want. My supplier in Ontario is Enbridge so I’m out of luck

2. OUTSTANDING…!!

   Hello Danielle..?????????
   You my dear, should ALSO be taking said stance on this utter BS of Climate Change Taxation.

   1. AB’s natural gas distribution isn’t via a crown corporation. Perhaps there is a way of not remitting this additional tax to the federal gov’t but I don’t know of it yet. Premier Smith has addressed this difficulty already.
      Sask is able to do so with this gov’t act, as their gas distribution is through Sask Energy, a crown corp.

      When AB separates from old Canada, I doubt there will be a carbon tax. So there’s a way forward….

      *If ALL the provincial governments simply used the division of powers given to them in the constitution, it’d be a major +

      1. There’s a problem, and I’ve mentioned this many times. There will be no separation until Alberta and Saskatchewan control their own police forces. Guilbeault pointed this out by threatening the provincial premiers with personal arrest. These provinces need to terminate Ottawa’s control of the provincial police forces in their provinces by the RCMP now.

         1. 100% agreed.

         2. Maybe “personal arrest” is what is needed.

         3. Except the protection detail for AB Premiers is handled by the CPS, not RCMP. That would cause a pissing match!

3. If more provinces were do the same, the Liberals would have a P.R. disaster on their hands if forced to threaten jail to all of the premiers. But then again, never underestimate a liberal scorned.

4. It will be interesting to see the response from the Trudeau Liberal-NDP government. My bet is that they take away part of the carbon tax rebate instead of direct confrontation with the Saskatchewan government. OTOH, with the extreme narcissism and arrogance of Trudeau and Guilbeault…who knows.

   Expanding the carbon tax revolt to saskpower could be a possibility. If the sask government can’t simply not collect the carbon tax then perhaps redirect the federal carbon tax collected by saskpower to provincial clean energy projects. Heat pumps are functionally useless and expensive to operate in the extremely cold prairie winters but how about using the money to build nuclear plants, more natural gas plants, carbon capture projects or building/renovating homes that are more energy efficient. This would mirror Trudeau’s rationale for free heat pumps for Atlantic Canada – helping people transition to lower CO2 emissions.

   I’m not sure how much federal carbon tax saskpower collects or which provincial clean energy projects would therefore be feasible but surely the useless carbon tax could be used for practical projects instead of just making Saskatchewan people poorer. By redirecting the the tax, the Saskatchewan government would be also starving the Trudeau government of its gst tax on the carbon tax and that alone is a worthwhile endeavor. Although I prefer to just Axe the Tax wherever possible.

   1. The trouble with renovating old homes to make them more energy efficient is the math, i.e. the payback time. I could wrap my entire house in 2″ of rigid insulation, but when considering the cost ($70 a pop for an 8 ft piece of Styrofoam, removing all of the siding, strap the walls, install insulation, re-install siding, cap all of the windows, etc, I would be long dead before I broke even on this expensive venture. Not to mention the actual cost of natural gas is about 50% of the total bill, so the savings are miniscule when looking at month to month costs. Same goes for my furnace. I have a mid-high efficient Carrier unit I installed about 20 years ago. No fancy electronics and no horizontal chimney that turns into an ice block in the winter. I tap the thermostat when I feel a chill and my house warms up.

      The long and short of it is, we are paying the carbon tax on behalf of China and India. Canada could disappear tomorrow and it would be akin to one less person farting at Rogers Place during an Edmonton Oilers game.

      1. The carbon tax has not produced any meaningful CO2 emissions reductions. By adding the federal gst/hat to the carbon tax, a tax on a tax, it’s purpose is to increase tax revenue for the Trudeau liberal-NDP government because that part isn’t rebated back to Canadians. The gst/hst revenue is probably the biggest reason why the federal government won’t extend the heating oil carbon tax exemption to all home heating.

         Yeah, in my experience , home renovations take longer and cost more than planned. Once you start renovating an older home you find other problems that need to be fixed. The “might as well fix that too” rationale gets pricey.

         Maybe it would be easier and more politically palatable to redirect the federal carbon tax collected by saskpower to provincial grocery rebates, since the food affordability crisis is also exacerbated by the Trudeau carbon tax. Imagine the Trudeau liberal-NDP government going against food affordability during a cost of living crisis.

         …or just have saskpower Axe the Tax if Trudeau and Guilbeault wants to get into a tit for tat battle with Saskatchewan.

5. Except for the fact that Scott Moe needs to be jailed for crimes against humanity along with all the other politicians who coerced Canadians into taking mRNA gene therapy (contaminated with dsDNA and an undisclosed SV40 promoter,) I rather like the man. But he still belongs in jail. He has Saskatchewanians’ clotted blood on his hands.

   1. Fully agree. That bast**d is a criminal the way he mistreated Saskatchewanians.

6. Meanwhile in BC…crickets.

7. Perhaps citizens should short their utility bills by the amount of the carbon tax as well.

8. history has illustrated many time over that centralised authourity is doomed to failure if only based on scale – and herding cats is [free the cats!], more often than not, just some dumb aspiration reserved for politicians drunk on the idea that if everyone thought the same thing as they did – the world would be a better place. the question is not how did we get here, but rather how do we get out?
   saskatchewan is taking rational action. period.
   canada will toss out and be rid of this useless, incompetent, corrupt government in ottawa not a moment too soon.