Saturday, January 05, 2019
Why Doesn't Trudeau Take a Page From His Father's Book?
Justin Trudeau has been promising a carbon tax for ages. For the past several months a gaggle of provincial leaders, sitting and soon to be sitting, has been raising a stink, claiming such a move would be unconstitutional. Trudeau, they claim, is stepping on their toes, meddling where he's not welcome.
There's an easy way to sort this out, one that doesn't depend on Jason Kenney bumping off Rachel Notley. It's the same option the real Trudeau, Pierre, used in 1976 - a reference to the Supreme Court of Canada.
1976 was the year that Pierre Trudeau quelled the troubled waters over his government's Anti-Inflation Act.
The carbon tax is still going to be a political football. Hey, it's an election year. That can't be helped. What Trudeau could do is remove a major arrow from his opponents' quiver.
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BC has had a carbon tax since 2008. It's now $35/ton. Consumption of gasoline and diesel hasn't gone down.
We know that $35 a ton isn't remotely enough, Hugh. You know that too.
What??!! BC's carbon tax hasn't killed the economy? Say it ain't so! And it's reduced per capita consumption of fossil fuels? Wait 'til I tell DoFo!
Cap
What makes you imagine you tell that slug anything, Cap? Are you fluent in slime trails?
No, no, it's Doug AND the Slugs. That means Doug's not one of the Slugs. Sheesh! You'd think someone from BC would know that!
Cap
Good one. I let that one slip right past me.
They hate the Carbon Tax because it’s a tax, and because it happens to target fossil fuels, which they’ve tied themselves to as their champions, and climate change, which is just another liberal plot to ruin the oil patch and destroy Alberta. It’s constitutionality isn’t really relevant. The challenges aren’t about whether or not the tax is constitutional, but rather, “virtue signalling “ to the conservative base, no different than Republicans passing anti-abortion or anti-Muslim laws. If they win in court, so much the better. If they lose, it’s just another example of those liberal activist judges ramming their godless values down good old Americans’ (or Canadians’) throats, legislating from the bench, meaning you need to keep electing them so they can put good conservative judges on the bench to rule the right way.
Unfortunately things change. Would PET have been able to fend off today's social media and the now conservative controlled MSM? Justin may be today's PET after all.
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