Liberals say the carbon tax is wrong... so why is it still around？
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Summary
Why am I still paying a carbon tax on my heating right now? Why is it so cold in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, and why am I paying it? Why not just get rid of the carbon tax?
Transcript
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Hi, it's John and welcome to the channel 427 AM on Wednesday, February the 19th with the big blue mug of coffee.
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I'm going to tell you how cold it is in Calgary in just a moment, but I have a very, very important question.
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If you're a Canadian citizen, you need to be asking this question as well.
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If you don't live in Canada, you need to ask the question, what the hell are we doing here in Canada?
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Why are we in this precarious predicament right now?
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So I wake up this morning, I check the temperature and here it is from Environment Canada, minus 27 Celsius right now in Calgary.
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And I read the other day that it has been the coldest February, I think, ever in Calgary.
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It has been weeks of really cold temperatures here.
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And right now my furnace is running and it is the only thing between me being alive and me being dead right now.
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And most of the people here in Calgary, I think most of the people in the country, heat our homes with natural gas.
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With the current situation with the Liberal Party of Canada being concerned about the cost of living for Canadians,
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being concerned about high prices for Canadians, they seem to be all of a sudden really concerned about those things.
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And all of them saying they're going to scrap the carbon tax.
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Why am I still paying a carbon tax on my heating right now?
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When they finally get back to their jobs in Parliament after the prorogation,
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it will almost be too late for me to save any money on my heat.
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But right now I can hear the carbon tax clicking away.
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And everybody who uses natural gas or fossil fuels across this country,
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with the exception of the Atlantic provinces who got a car vote last year,
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The Liberals thought it was just fine to have a GST holiday for a couple of months
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And from what I understand, it really didn't help all that much.
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But it would really help me if I didn't have to pay my carbon tax.
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And if the Liberals are so against the carbon tax, why am I still paying it right now?
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Truro can write checks and give them off to other countries like it's nothing,
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But he can't just say, you know, we don't want the carbon tax anymore because we don't like it.
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The only reason they don't like it is because it's not convenient right now.
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But why am I paying carbon tax on my heating right now?
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And all the prices I have to pay extra on top of things because everything has a carbon tax on it.
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Now we know why, because the Liberals are for a carbon tax.
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His carbon tax will be bigger than the one we've got right now.
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You just won't see it when you pay for it when you get your gas.
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But everything will go up even more because he's going to tax the people who make everything
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and put tariffs on everything that comes into this country.
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And we know what the Liberals and the NDP and the Greens are all about.
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Here is Corey Morgan here in Calgary yesterday.
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Minus 25, but hey, well, not much breeze, so the windmills won't keep us warm.
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Won't generate any power until, I guess, somebody sweeps all those off.
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Looks like somebody blasted a vehicle through the fence, though, and smashed it into the
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So now we've got a full-time security guy hanging around, too, while it generates nothing.
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I wonder how many subsidies went into this beauty.
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All right, folks, just be sure to always thank God for oil and gas.
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Go over and get a subscription to the Western Standard.
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I'm not sure exactly where he was in Calgary, because that's where he is.
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But about four kilometers from where I live, at 114th Avenue and 52nd Street in the southeast
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of Calgary, there's a huge solar panel farm I drove by the other day, completely covered
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But the liberals say they're against carbon taxing you, and they're not.
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They're all for the things that won't keep you warm.
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The furnace in this house is the only thing that's keeping me from freezing to death.
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And my wife and my cats and everybody in the city from freezing to death right now when
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Why am I still paying a carbon tax, Mr. Carney and Mr. Trudeau and Ms. Freeland?
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You can just wave your magic wand and get rid of the GST for two months.