“Net-Zero Tyranny”

With both the federal NDP and B.C.’s NDP government backing away from support for the carbon tax, it is time to pronounce the tax politically dead in Canada, with precise funeral arrangements to be made after the next federal election. Conservative governments across Canada have long opposed a carbon tax, and federal leader Pierre Poilievre is anxious to fight the next election on the issue. But now even Liberal support is flagging, with Newfoundland’s Liberal government attacking the tax as too costly for households. The federal Liberals themselves acknowledged the tax was a problem when they provided a carve-out for home heating oil, which is heavily used in Atlantic Canada.

OTTAWA — The Liberals say the House of Commons exceeded its powers when MPs ordered the government to hand over all documents related to the so-called “green slush fund” so they can be sent to the RCMP.

On Wednesday, Government House Leader Karina Gould called on Speaker Greg Fergus to reject opposition parties’ claim that the government violated MPs’ parliamentary privilege by refusing to provide them with unfettered access to thousands of documents regarding Sustainable Development Technology Canada (SDTC).

Pierre Poilievre poisoned Canadians against the most effective tool we have for fighting climate change. Why on earth is the NDP going along?

If the federal carbon tax is not yet dead, it has suffered a mortal wound.

Pierre Poilievre’s Conservatives, enjoying a 20-point lead in the polls, have a kid-on-Christmas-morning enthusiasm for repealing it as their first order of business. The Tory position is hardly new, but last Thursday federal NDP leader Jagmeet Singh signalled his intention to disavow the carbon tax that his party has consistently supported in Parliament. The NDP says they will propose an alternative climate plan, details TBD, but stressed that the Liberal carbon tax puts too much of a burden on working people. Which is exactly the Conservatives’ argument against it.

All eco-whinging is an attack on the poor, it’s just another form of control exercised by the elite who can afford such luxury values.

Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault’s department was cited by federal auditors for poor oversight of millions spent on green subsidies, per Blacklock’s Reporter.

Auditors noted spending on subsidies had risen sharply since 2016, by $625 million, with little corresponding scrutiny of where the money went or why.

That’s because it’s a great big Liberal slush fund.

OTTAWA — When it comes to its national carbon pricing regime, the Liberal government is getting lonelier and lonelier.

First it was the opposition New Democrats who raised questions about their support for a policy they had unambiguously championed in the past two federal election campaigns. Earlier this spring, and again this week, NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh suggested his party is looking at other carbon pricing options as it designs a new climate plan for the next campaign. Whatever they come up with, Singh claimed, would not impose a burden on everyday Canadians.