“Net-Zero Tyranny”

The countdown is on. It’s 17 days until the next potential capitulation by a government trying to plug the drain that’s sucking its re-election into a death spiral.

Expect the carbon tax boost set for April Fool’s Day to be axed. And you can credit beer for the move.

When Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland chopped a planned beer excise tax hike(opens in a new tab) to two per cent from 4.5 per cent and froze future increases until after the next election, it almost guaranteed a similar carbon tax move in the offing.

A generation of anti-hydrocarbon policies has crippled Europe’s defense capabilities.

Whatever one thinks about its causes, course, and consequences, the war in Ukraine rages on. That unavoidable fact has brought many in Europe to something of an epiphany. In late February, at a summit of European leaders in Paris, French president Emmanuel Macron asserted that “[t]his is a European war,” and asked his fellow leaders, “Should we delegate our future to the American electorate? The answer is no, whatever their vote.”

Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is putting Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on notice that his party plans to force “multiple votes” when the House of Commons returns, resuming its pressure campaign to see the Liberals scrap the planned April 1 carbon tax increase.

“Next week we will be forcing multiple votes in Parliament to spike Trudeau’s tax hike. The final vote will be next Thursday. Mark your calendars,” Poilievre said in a statement issued Wednesday morning.

Premier Danielle Smith gracefully responds to question on Trudeau blaming her for being problematic in the relationship with Environment Minister Steven Guileault.

“It would be a lot more constructive a relationship if we had someone pragmatic on the other side of the table.” pic.twitter.com/cxewwYc7Df

— Rowan Thee Stallion 🏇 (@canmericanized) March 13, 2024

h/t Mauser

OTTAWA—Pierre Poilievre’s Conservatives are launching a full-court political press against the Trudeau Liberals’ April 1 carbon price increase — and there’s already a Liberal premier signing on.

Newfoundland and Labrador’s Andrew Furey — an ally of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau — added his voice Tuesday to Poilievre’s demand the Liberals pause the planned increase, a request also made in the last week by Ontario’s Doug Ford, P.E.I.’s Dennis King and New Brunswick’s Blaine Higgs, all conservatives.

An advisory body that spends its time urging the UK government to do even more to get to carbon net zero tried to “kill” a negative newspaper story with “technical language.”

The story, which follows a Freedom of Information (FoI) request by The Daily Telegraph, has prompted calls for the government’s climate watchdog to be dissolved. Socially conservative commentator and editor of the similarly placed TCW website Kathy Gyngell said it was “high time” the body was “disbanded completely,” while author Steve Milloy described the disclosure as further proof that “honesty is the death of the climate hoax.”

“… We have heard this scare for at least 100 years; yet the coastal cities are still there. For some unknown reason, waves beating against sea shores causes some land to disappear. They article calls it “subsidence” but it’s just normal erosion. There is zero evidence that rising CO2, eating meating, or humanity’s use of oil, natural gas, or coal causes the oceans to move.”

When Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez announced that people would have to stop eating hamburgers because cow flatulence was an existential threat to life on Earth, most people duly chuckled. Nevertheless, AOC’s call for cow-culling was taken up by the United Nations, European Union, World Economic Forum, and “Climate Envoy” John Kerry. Protests defending farming in Holland, Ireland, and Belgium opposed these bold attacks on gentle bovines. Contrary to slanderous arguments by globalist fearmongers, cows are the solution to many of humanity’s most significant environmental problems. Here’s why.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says a five-minute sit down with voters would get Canadians onboard with the federal carbon tax.

The prime minister made the comment during a recent stop at a seniors’ centre in Hanmer, Ont., near Sudbury after being asked by a senior if carbon pricing was a tax grab.

“The Conservatives have to twist themselves in knots and make [the carbon tax] sound very different than it actually is to try to get people outraged about it,” Mr. Trudeau said. “That’s the answer in two seconds. Now if I can only have five minutes to explain it like that to every Canadian, we’d be better off.”

He is delusional.

Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault says Ottawa has to take action against Saskatchewan for breaking the federal carbon-pricing law.

Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe said last week his province would not submit the money it owed for the carbon price on natural gas as required on Feb. 29.

Ottawa’s planned increase of the federal carbon tax on April Fool’s Day is no laughing matter for more than two-thirds of Canadians.

A newly released survey from Leger found that 69 percent of poll respondents don’t support the Liberals’ plan to increase carbon pricing next month. The April 1 hike will raise carbon taxes to 17 cents per litre for gasoline, 21 cents per litre for diesel, and 15 cents per cubic metre for natural gas.