Thanks to wildfires, air quality in Canada is now worse than in the U.S., according to a new report.
Published Tuesday, the 6th Annual World Air Quality Report found that air quality in Canada in 2023 was worse than in the U.S. for the first time in the report’s history.
Of the 15 most polluted cities in the two countries, 14 were in Canada, led by Fort McMurray and Peace River in Alberta. Others included Yellowknife, Edmonton, Saskatoon and Canmore, Alta.
Clearly we need more carbon tax.
Justin Trudeau wants you to know that life would be a lot worse without his carbon tax rebate. The Liberals are now selling the carbon tax, and the rebate that comes with it, as an affordability message, even though the carbon tax is part of what is making everything more expensive.
Conservative MP Leslyn Lewis is criticizing the Liberal government for providing nearly half a million dollars to the World Economic Forum (WEF) to produce an environmental report promoting the carbon tax.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau paid the WEF nearly $500,000 “of Canadian taxpayer money for the New Nature Economy Report justifying his carbon tax,” Ms. Lewis says in a March 18 social media post. “Global interest groups should not be trusted to care about the prosperity of Canadians.”
Late last year, when Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault announced the Liberals’ plan to eliminate the sale of cars with internal combustion engines by 2035, a number of people, myself included, rolled their eyes at the government’s interference in the free market. Little did we know how fast the free market would slap the electric vehicle mandate back to reality, while Canadian taxpayers continue to subsidize green fantasies.
THERE is a move afoot in the western world which will permanently prevent anyone from having a new idea. It has been tried many times before, mostly successfully. It has been seen operating under the control of common-or-garden varieties of dictators, who proudly boast that 97 per cent of the population loves and agrees with them. This latest version is being disguised as a fully justifiable attempt to protect citizens from harm, the harm that comes from the viral spread of that enchantress Miss Disinformation.
The Conservatives are calling for an emergency debate in the House of Commons on the Trudeau government’s scheduled increase of the federal carbon tax.
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre has written to House Speaker Greg Fergus requesting the debate, pointing to public opposition to the hike, set to take place on April 1.
Natural Resources Minister Jonathan Wilkinson says provincial premiers who are calling on the government to scrap a planned increase on the carbon tax have their facts wrong.
In an interview airing Sunday on Rosemary Barton Live, Wilkinson defended the federal government’s landmark climate policy against a growing chorus of provincial leaders who hope to either delay or ditch altogether the impending April 1 increase.
“Based on the facts, the seven premiers are just wrong,” Wilkinson told guest host David Common.
Justin Trudeau acknowledged this week that he’s no longer popular. Hearkening back to similar comments by former prime minister Brian Mulroney, whose funeral will be held Saturday, Trudeau said, “My job is not to be popular. … My job is to do the right things for Canada now, and do the right things for Canadians a generation from now.”
Friends and foes suggest a solution to Trudeau’s popularity problem — one that may lead the Liberals towards an existential crisis in the next election — is a pause to the carbon price increase coming to Canadians’ wallets on April 1.
But Trudeau has much more to lose if he amends his government’s signature climate policy than if he stands his ground.
Albertans receive far higher carbon tax rebates from Ottawa than any other Canadians.
A family of four will get $1,800 annually, up from $1,544 last year.
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In Ontario, this year’s benefit is $1,120.
Per capita, Albertans burn more fuel and emit more carbon than other Canadians.
That means higher levels of carbon tax — and more money back from what’s now called the Canada Carbon Rebate.
The Alberta government has released some details of where and how it will permit wind and solar development, prohibiting it along a broad stretch of the province’s western edge, assessing its visual impact in five other large areas and restricting it on agricultural land.
“Wind projects are no longer permitted in the buffer zones due to the impact of their vertical footprint,” said Affordability and Utilities ministry spokeswoman Ashley Stevenson.
“With agricultural lands, development is still permitted as long as the project can coexist with livestock or crops.”
In a passionate defence of his carbon tax this week, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau revealed he either doesn’t understand his climate change plan, or he’s just gaslighting Canadians.
The Trudeau government’s mandate that all new passenger vehicle sales must be electric or plug-in hybrid by 2035 could cause chaos because Canada’s electricity grid isn’t close to having the capacity needed to charge them, according to a new study by the Fraser Institute.
Justin Trudeau had a message for anyone expecting a U-turn on the carbon tax at his press conference in Calgary: “You turn if you want to, this Liberal’s not for turning.”
Trudeau stands beside the porch pirate & tells Canadians he’s making a better future for the next generation while trying hard not to laugh when saying how great Guilbeault is.
“Nearly 60 per cent of Canadian parents are concerned about their children's financial future”-CTV pic.twitter.com/bO6ckMdw6h
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Premier Doug Ford is appealing — not just publicly but also privately — to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to not increase the carbon levy April 1, warning the Liberals risk being “annihilated.”
“I do not understand for the life of me what the federal government is thinking,” the Progressive Conservative premier told reporters Wednesday in Pickering.
“If they don’t start … putting money back into people’s pockets instead of filling their pockets, guess what, they’re going to get annihilated,” he said of an election expected next year.
OTTAWA — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said his goal is not to win a popularity contest as he doubled down on his government’s carbon tax despite calls from Conservatives and seven premiers, including Canada’s lone Liberal premier, asking him to halt the planned increase on April 1.
h/t DS
