Justin Trudeau may not have taken a “walk in the snow,” like his father did 40 years ago on this day, but Dustin Duncan took a walk in rain in front of Parliament, and decides we’re not remitting carbon tax to the feds.
This is the guy who, by a recently passed law, gets to be sacrificed on the cross for our carbon tax sins.
(The decision was clearly made before, but it makes good political theatre.)
No forecast for snow in Ottawa today, unfortunately. Maybe the federal Minister of Environment and Climate Change changed the climate?
I’m waiting for the first politician to come up with the “Instant rebate carbon tax” where when you go to fill up your vehicle, you get charged and then instantly rebated the amount of the carbon tax. Same thing with your NG bill, where you have a line item for the carbon tax, and the next line is the carbon tax rebate.
Making a perfect circular carbon tax economy, with everyone neither better or worse off…
Good news. The whole point of a tax revolt is to deny tax money to the political class. It’s unusual for a Canadian provincial government to conduct a tax revolt against the federal government but we’ve never had such an awful federal government in my lifetime.
At the height of Trudeau’s popularity, he maybe could have counted on his voters to support legal or criminal action against Saskatchewan. Now, Trudeau’s personal popularity is polling at the lowest levels ever recorded. Canada is an economic mess. Tent cities are growing Citizens, working Canadians, are going to food banks in numbers not seen since the Great Depression. It goes on and on. I doubt Trudeau or Guillbealt have the ability to win over voters to the idea of fining or arresting provincial politicians for the crime of making it easier to heat homes in the frigid Canadian prairie winter. I suspect they will lower rebate checks instead.
” common sense dictates that the federal government arresting any provincial government officials would be foolish at best and a world media nightmare at worst”
Hm…like freezing bank accounts, stealing donations, and using police to brutally beat down peaceful protesters including running over a woman on a handicapped scooter using a police horse and pepper spraying a journalist and hitting her in the throat with a billy club wasn’t enough? Anyone who thinks our Emperor cares about what world media thinks hasn’t been paying attention to what’s been going on in Canada since our Trudeau got into power.
It’s fitting looking at the Parliament building behind him.
Is actually completely covered in tarping painted to look like a building; windows all. Note the cranes in background.
It has to be covered. It’s at the start of a decade-long, $5 billion refurbishment. The heating system needs to be completely replaced. The building needs to be stabilized for seismic events. They need to remove tons of asbestos from the building. They need to add three sub-basements plus reinforce the foundations.
So assume that the above figures will be at least 50% more than I stated above.
And if you think that’s bad, you should see the wreckage that is 24 Sussex Drive, the official residence of the Prime Minister. It’s in such bad shape that, now abandoned for a decade, it may never be repaired, and Canada will have to build a new residence for the Prime Minister. In addition to asbestos, 24 Sussex is infested with rats and its electrical system poses a severe safety hazard.
Stornaway, the official residence of the Leader of the Opposition is also in equally bad shape. A 2018 refurbishment did little more than apply a new coat of paint.
Canada has a very bad history of its neglect of public buildings and allowing them to fall apart.
Tear it down, metal huts are good enough for those buffoons.
There is never a snowfall or avalanche when you need one.
Now this: https://www.castanet.net/news/Canada/474779/Wilkinson-says-no-carbon-rebates-for-Saskatchewan-after-province-says-it-won-t-remit#474779
So no rebates for Saskatchewanians, and I presume that means for gasoline and diesel carbon taxes too.
So the question arises: Are Atlantic Canadians, the folks exempted from paying carbon tax on home heating oil, still getting the full rebates? If so, there’s a case for the courts. Should get interesting.
…and Moe responds on Xtwitter :
No rebate = No carbon tax.
I hope Moe follows through and cancels all of the carbon tax in Saskatchewan that his government can cancel. The Trudeau Liberal-NDP government has lost the moral authority to govern, IMO. Scandal after scandal. Corruption on top of corruption. Not taking any ministerial accountability or ministerial responsibility for their incompetence and neglect.
https://twitter.com/PremierScottMoe/status/1763312987757060467
Agreed, LC. What an incredible distraction for our Crime Minister. It sure is timely with the recent revelations that the RCMP never attempted to question the Prime Minister in the SNC Lavalin corruption affair. Not to mention the more current stuff, like ArriveCan, the Chinese spies at the Winnipeg Disease Lab, and the Emergency Act invocation. If ever there was a hint of treason in this county’s history, this bastard is treasonous beyond a doubt.
If I know my history correctly, treason used to be a capital offence. I am betting if we measured public opinion, we could likely bring back the death penalty option for capital offences. Just thinkin’ out loud here.
I say Moe should attempt to withhold as much carbon tax as he can in every instance possible. This federal government is quickly becoming irrelevant with new revelations of scandal on the daily.
I’d be happy with a federal election followed by the Conservatives authorizing a forensic audit of the Trudeau Liberal-NDP government scandals and contracts. I think that might finish off the Liberal Party and they would be as extinct as Mulroney’s Progressive Conservative Party.
As for Trudeau, well, I only support capital punishment for extreme, violent crimes where the evidence against the offender is 100% reliable. Trudeau isn’t that kind of criminal.
I’ve said before that it would be better for the Trudeau name to go down in infamy. I suggest we memorialize him by renaming appropriate facilities after him all across Canada – Justin Trudeau garbage landfills and Justin Trudeau sewage dumps. Places that will forever symbolize his impact as Canada’s Prime Minister. /s
Unfortunate timing on the Mulroney comment. I didn’t hear the news until after the comment posted. Condolences to Mulroney’s family and friends.
You fantasize that this is a real country. No corrupt cop will investigate, no Liberal (all of them) crown will prosecute, no Librano judge will try a case. It is all optics. The laurentian elite run this joke as their personal fiefdom, and woe betide anyone who interrupts them. Most Canadians are obedient sheep, they don’t want to have the truth, they want the comfy warm bed of the matrix, where mommy government does the hard stuff.
All our hopes rest on PDJT and the USA where some real men who will do hard things still exist.
The Sask party needs this to build some good will for the provincial election that’s not far away. They squandered a lot of it the past several years. The timing of these challenges coming from Alberta and Saskatchewan couldn’t be better. While the libs are flailing around trying to keep ahead of the scandals, they will hopefully make some even worse mistakes!
Honestly, how hard is it to say that reducing emissions will have zero effect on the climate?
It’s simple, They are afraid of the media
Too dang cold to snow in Ottawa today!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! As Wimpy from Popeye said ” will gladly pay you Tuesday for a hambuger today”!The hit to taxpayers last year alone was $82.6 million, with the government assigning 465 full-time employees to administer the carbon tax and rebate scheme perhttps://www.taxpayer.com/newsroom/carbon-tax-costs-taxpayers-200-million-to-administer#:~:text=The%20hit%20to%20taxpayers%20last,carbon%20tax%20and%20rebate%20scheme.