Catherine McKenna says the carbon tax creates jobs
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Environment Minister Catherine McKenna argues that putting a carbon tax on Canadian households and businesses will create 19,000 new jobs. But a recent study by a group with marked liberal ties found that this will actually cost tens of thousands of jobs.
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if you say something ridiculous enough times maybe just maybe you'll start to believe it
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in an op-ed in the glebe report a central ottawa community newspaper environment minister catherine
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mckenna argued that the liberal government's environment policies are going to create jobs
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specifically she says that the government's price on pollution the carbon tax is going to create
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19 000 jobs she says that putting a tax on canadians that causes everything to go up
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fuel hydro natural gas that this is going to create 19 000 jobs now the basis for this according to an
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article in black locks reporter that reached out to the minister's office was a study done by a group
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that has very marked liberal ties and this study however found that yes there will be some jobs
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created in the construction sector but there will also be tens of thousands of jobs lost because of
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the carbon tax in manufacturing in conventional energy sources in the shuttering of industries
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that have once thrived in canada professor mike moffitt even said that it's complicated in the
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black locks reporter article and that you can't necessarily extrapolate massive job creation from
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this and even those jobs that will be created are because of a need to replace certain things that
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the government is shutting down now when i read this it reeks of the broken window fallacy the idea
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that fixing a window is somehow an economic positive even if you had to break it in the first place
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to do it creating jobs in the wake of government destroying other jobs is not economic growth and you
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can't argue it is but the liberals are trying to say that this job killing carbon tax is anything other
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than well a job killing carbon tax and if you want to see the real impact don't listen to an op-ed
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written by katherine mckenna but listen to business owners that have been sounding the alarm about this
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for ages or factories that are shutting down businesses that could barely afford their hydro rates
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as it was already and now we're finding the added costs are even more prohibitive remember a carbon tax is
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a tax on everything everything that requires carbon which means anything you need to drive somewhere
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anything you need to power that is going to cause more money that businesses have to spend which they
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either have to absorb or pass on to their consumers but there's no net positive benefit and there's
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certainly no net neutral benefit that money has to come from somewhere and what the government is
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trying to pretend is that everyone ends up winning in this that this scenario where the government
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artificially flips the switch and says this is the new cost of doing business will somehow cause
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thousands and thousands of jobs a new windfall of employment in canada but it just doesn't work
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that way canadians are seeing through this we hope but again the brazenness of this government
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pretending that a punishment is actually a cure this is one of the reasons true north is covering this
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