Juno News - November 07, 2019Another carbon tax？
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The carbon tax is back in the conversation, but hold on, it may not be the carbon tax you are thinking of. There are developments on the front when it comes to the national federal carbon tax that Justin Trudeau is planning to ram down the throats of unwilling provinces.
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the carbon tax is back in the conversation but hold on it may not be
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the carbon tax you are thinking of yes it's true there are developments on the
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front when it comes to the national federal carbon tax that Justin Trudeau
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is planning to ram down the throats of unwilling provinces latest developments
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being Ontario Premier Doug Ford confirming yes we are in fact gonna take
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this fight all the way up to the Supreme Court of Canada so you got three
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provinces Ontario Saskatchewan Alberta all itching for this fight meanwhile a
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lot of questions about what is going to happen in the months ahead as the federal
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liberals review the carbon tax Justin Trudeau seems like he's doubling down on
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his approach to climate change so is this thing gonna increase well a lot of
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internal documents suggest yes it will have a review coming up soon in the
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coming years and we'll see the carbon tax maybe double maybe triple who knows but
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we may also see the number of carbon taxes double or triple really what am I
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getting at well Sue Ann Levy at the Toronto Sun found a really interesting document
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the city of Toronto decided to declare a climate emergency like every other
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government in the Western world is for some reason doing and they created an
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action plan and part of that action plan involved cobbling together these
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discussion papers for different groups and organizations to talk about the
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options that they can have moving forward ways that they can deal with this
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supposed climate emergency and lo and behold one of them is a climate tax added on to
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the regular property tax bills that's right homeowners all across the city of
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Toronto could see themselves having to pay a municipal carbon tax now
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obviously the algorithm won't be the same as the federal carbon tax or who knows
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maybe it will I mean you give these guys an idea you give them an inch they will
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take a mile so who knows how they will calculate this darn thing if they go ahead
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with it and I have learned consistent with my favorite line that there's nothing
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more permanent than a pilot project if you've got these ideas being floated
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around in some of these discussion papers well you can think maybe it's a fait accompli I
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mean this is wild to think there could actually be a municipal carbon tax and
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you think the people of Toronto would stand up and rise up against it but who
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knows the original idea of the federal carbon tax that Justin Trudeau is now so
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proudly doubling down on well that was initially a controversial idea
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Stephane Dion campaigning on something similar with the green shift about a
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decade ago people said no we don't want this at all looks like a tax on
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everything and lo and behold we now have the tax on everything all across Canada
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municipal carbon tax federal carbon tax well maybe bring in a provincial carbon
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tax and then you can have three different climate tax carbon tax things
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happening all across the country I know this is just the city of Toronto and is
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just in a discussion paper but this can be a bit of a canary in a coal mine
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things that happen in cities like New York big cities Toronto they later set the
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tone in the agenda for the whole rest of the country so Wow people of Toronto be
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ready for this coming to a community discussion near you and people all