Juno News - Catherine McKenna says the carbon tax creates jobs

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.

00:00:00.000 if you say something ridiculous enough times maybe just maybe you'll start to believe it

00:00:06.960 in an op-ed in the glebe report a central ottawa community newspaper environment minister catherine

00:00:13.680 mckenna argued that the liberal government's environment policies are going to create jobs

00:00:19.640 specifically she says that the government's price on pollution the carbon tax is going to create

00:00:26.800 19 000 jobs she says that putting a tax on canadians that causes everything to go up

00:00:34.160 fuel hydro natural gas that this is going to create 19 000 jobs now the basis for this according to an

00:00:43.080 article in black locks reporter that reached out to the minister's office was a study done by a group

00:00:49.000 that has very marked liberal ties and this study however found that yes there will be some jobs

00:00:55.900 created in the construction sector but there will also be tens of thousands of jobs lost because of

00:01:03.740 the carbon tax in manufacturing in conventional energy sources in the shuttering of industries

00:01:10.620 that have once thrived in canada professor mike moffitt even said that it's complicated in the

00:01:16.140 black locks reporter article and that you can't necessarily extrapolate massive job creation from

00:01:22.220 this and even those jobs that will be created are because of a need to replace certain things that

00:01:29.180 the government is shutting down now when i read this it reeks of the broken window fallacy the idea

00:01:34.620 that fixing a window is somehow an economic positive even if you had to break it in the first place

00:01:39.900 to do it creating jobs in the wake of government destroying other jobs is not economic growth and you

00:01:47.420 can't argue it is but the liberals are trying to say that this job killing carbon tax is anything other

00:01:53.340 than well a job killing carbon tax and if you want to see the real impact don't listen to an op-ed

00:01:59.100 written by katherine mckenna but listen to business owners that have been sounding the alarm about this

00:02:04.460 for ages or factories that are shutting down businesses that could barely afford their hydro rates

00:02:09.980 as it was already and now we're finding the added costs are even more prohibitive remember a carbon tax is

00:02:16.300 a tax on everything everything that requires carbon which means anything you need to drive somewhere

00:02:21.660 anything you need to power that is going to cause more money that businesses have to spend which they

00:02:27.740 either have to absorb or pass on to their consumers but there's no net positive benefit and there's

00:02:34.140 certainly no net neutral benefit that money has to come from somewhere and what the government is

00:02:39.900 trying to pretend is that everyone ends up winning in this that this scenario where the government

00:02:44.220 artificially flips the switch and says this is the new cost of doing business will somehow cause

00:02:49.820 thousands and thousands of jobs a new windfall of employment in canada but it just doesn't work

00:02:55.260 that way canadians are seeing through this we hope but again the brazenness of this government

00:03:00.940 pretending that a punishment is actually a cure this is one of the reasons true north is covering this

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00:03:23.740 i'm andrew lutton

Juno News - August 21, 2019

Catherine McKenna says the carbon tax creates jobs

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