Juno News - Five provinces are united in opposing Justin Trudeau's carbon tax in court.

00:00:00.760 Good afternoon Canada, welcome to another True North Report. My name is Andrew

00:00:05.520 Lawton Fellow with True North here to talk about a case that has quite

00:00:11.600 surprisingly I think galvanized much of the country against Justin Trudeau and

00:00:17.400 I say surprisingly because it is a topic that's in the weeds, it's a topic that's

00:00:22.140 complex but it's one that has an impact on the average Canadian's bottom line

00:00:26.080 which is why I think it's been such an important thing to cover and that is the

00:00:30.440 federally imposed carbon tax that Justin Trudeau has steamrolled in and forced

00:00:36.080 onto provinces that don't want it that actually have by definition eschewed

00:00:41.740 carbon pricing schemes but the federal government looks to them and says no no

00:00:45.680 no you're going to do it anyway because we told you so and this is a quite a

00:00:50.560 fascinating time because when Justin Trudeau first put this forward just about

00:00:54.220 two years ago there was just one opponent to it and that was the province of

00:00:59.080 Saskatchewan then under the leadership of Brad Wall who was absolutely a

00:01:03.520 tremendous premier in Saskatchewan and you fast forward two years later and Brad

00:01:10.160 Wall's gone but there are actually five provinces that are united not just in

00:01:15.480 opposing carbon taxing from the federal government with five provinces united in

00:01:20.020 wanting to legally challenge the carbon tax and I'm not talking about tiny little

00:01:24.880 rinky-dink provinces here but Ontario Alberta Saskatchewan Manitoba and New

00:01:31.780 Brunswick so five provinces and combined about I think it's about 65% of the

00:01:38.620 population of the country that's in those provinces and they're not just saying

00:01:43.420 you know we don't really like this whole carbon tax thing they're saying no no we're

00:01:46.900 prepared to take Justin Trudeau to court over it and this process has already

00:01:50.620 started a few weeks back Saskatchewan argued its case in front of the

00:01:55.240 Saskatchewan court and two weeks ago or I guess a week and a half ago things

00:01:59.660 wrapped up in Toronto at Osgoode Hall where the Ontario government argued its

00:02:03.880 case and midway through that week-long hearing in Toronto the United

00:02:09.640 Conservative Party in Alberta won the election one of Jason Kenney's promises is

00:02:13.840 to use every legal tool at his disposal to fight Justin Trudeau's carbon tax which

00:02:19.180 means Ontario and Saskatchewan will soon be joined by Alberta in launching its own

00:02:25.180 legal challenge and yes Manitoba also arguing its own legal challenge against

00:02:31.480 the government New Brunswick has taken the approach of we're just gonna let all

00:02:34.900 these provinces do it but we support you and are intervening on your behalf the

00:02:39.120 reason I list these is because it's a tremendous amount of support and it's

00:02:43.620 all new these aren't just your typical sticks in the mud like people expect of

00:02:48.580 Alberta these are provincial governments that have been newly and freshly

00:02:52.440 elected in the last couple of years in part because they're prepared to say to

00:02:56.640 their citizens you know what we're going to fight against taxes and fight

00:03:00.300 against rising costs the federal government is imposing a taxes imposing a

00:03:04.560 rising cost we're going to fight for you against them and Trudeau is left

00:03:09.880 holding the gas can when this is all said and done and the reason I'm bringing

00:03:15.780 this up now is because I was in the courtroom at Osgoode Hall in Toronto it

00:03:20.960 was a four-day long hearing I was there for the entire thing and I'm not trying to

00:03:25.380 speak ill of my colleagues in media but I was actually the only member of the

00:03:29.520 media who was there for the entire thing I was the only member of the media

00:03:33.040 that was there all four days let alone for every single part of every day of

00:03:37.720 the hearing I didn't leave I barely ate and slept but it's okay because it was

00:03:42.220 important and don't worry I got some meals and sleep in but here's the big

00:03:45.600 problem in Canada right now is that the battles that were waging in the

00:03:51.520 courtrooms in Saskatchewan and Ontario and soon in Alberta are to the average

00:03:57.840 Canadian completely foreign most people aren't paying attention to it the reason I

00:04:02.360 was there is because it was tremendously important to me and to true north and I

00:04:06.200 think to a lot of the viewers of true north content that we shine a light on

00:04:10.940 what it is that's actually at stake and we were very fortunate we crowdfunded this we

00:04:15.420 don't get the 1.3 billion dollars from the federal government the CBC does we're

00:04:20.460 not getting a piece of the federal government 600 million dollar media

00:04:23.780 bailout fund everything we do is from people donating 25 35 50 dollars at a time and

00:04:29.680 that was how I went to the carbon tax trial we said to the viewers of true

00:04:34.060 north look we want to do this here's how much it's going to cost and people very

00:04:37.960 generously donated one person I sent a private note I don't know if he wants to

00:04:41.920 be named so I will respect just in case he doesn't but donated a thousand

00:04:45.760 dollars to doing this and it was tremendous we're very grateful for that

00:04:49.720 but the reason is because the federal government in this case is trying to

00:04:55.540 rewrite the rules of how the federal government is allowed to govern that's

00:04:59.620 what they're doing Justin Trudeau had his lawyer arguing before the Court of

00:05:04.420 Appeal for Ontario basically to give the federal government license to trample on

00:05:09.520 provincial rights because they say climate change is the biggest danger

00:05:13.840 that's facing Canada and this is not just dangerous because it would give them

00:05:19.000 license to Steve roll ahead with this carbon tax but it's dangerous because it

00:05:23.380 would give the federal government the right to trample on your and my rights

00:05:27.760 because they say that they don't like the way the provincial governments are

00:05:31.960 doing things and that's what's happening here the federal government has its

00:05:35.680 approach to carbon pricing they want to put a price on carbon they think this is

00:05:39.280 going to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and by extension curb climate

00:05:42.500 change and by extension meet Canada's UN commitments fine that's what they

00:05:47.440 think but when provincial governments are not playing ball the federal

00:05:53.120 government goes in and says okay well we're going to put a carbon tax on you

00:05:56.780 anyway and this is what happened I live in Ontario as you know Ontario got rid of

00:06:01.220 the cap-and-trade program the previous liberal government put into effect and

00:06:05.540 what does the federal government do on April 1st impose a carbon tax jacking fuel

00:06:10.820 prices up and I know that there's a natural fluctuation in this but I filled up my

00:06:15.920 gas tank and it was a dollar forty a dollar forty a liter and I don't live in

00:06:19.820 British Columbia thank goodness where they've seen the impacts of carbon

00:06:23.480 taxing to such an extent that I think it's like up over a dollar or seventy

00:06:27.560 something in BC but the whole point of this is that even if not every increase

00:06:33.860 in gas prices can be linked to a carbon tax the carbon tax adds further strain on

00:06:39.580 Canadians who rely on fuel which I would actually challenge you to come up with a

00:06:46.220 single Canadian who's not impacted by that even someone who lives in downtown

00:06:50.460 Toronto and walks to work and drinks organic free-range you know green fred

00:06:56.420 soy lattes or whatever is still reliant on fuel to do everything that they're

00:07:02.300 doing the coffee they pick up at their coffee shop the food they order the all of

00:07:07.540 these things rely on fuel and it's why the carbon tax is in fact a tax on

00:07:13.820 everything but the federal government refuses to admit that it is a tax and

00:07:19.940 this was something that I wanted to go live today to explain because I realized

00:07:24.920 that this gets very in the weeds and it's not always the most interesting thing

00:07:28.600 but I was at the carbon tax trial and I heard the arguments from the federal

00:07:32.420 government and the provincial government and the federal government is

00:07:35.940 trying to I would say hoodwink Canadians into thinking that something's

00:07:41.360 happening that isn't actually happening they do not believe that the carbon tax

00:07:45.860 is a tax they believe that a price on carbon is different than a tax on carbon

00:07:51.020 and the reason why is because it is and this is the federal government's lawyers

00:07:56.780 position because it's meant to change behavior so of the few key questions one

00:08:03.200 of them was is it a tax or is it a regulatory charge and if it's a tax and this was

00:08:08.180 argued by the Canadian Taxpayers Federation this was argued by the Ontario

00:08:12.560 government this was argued by the Saskatchewan government the federal

00:08:15.980 government is allowed to impose a tax without any real issues but if it's going

00:08:21.320 to do that it has to put forward a tax in a clear transparent and

00:08:26.780 constitutional way you can't put a tax in through a back door you've got to call

00:08:31.160 it a tax and you've got to say you we hereby proclaim a tax or whatever the

00:08:34.980 wording is but they've got to be honest about it and say this is a tax that the

00:08:38.640 federal government is enacting that Parliament is enacting and they didn't

00:08:42.180 do that they did not do that with the carbon price what they did is say no no

00:08:47.100 no this is a regulatory charge but with that there are some other rules attached

00:08:52.020 to it and one of them is that you've got to use the money you raise to actually

00:08:56.280 advance the scheme to run the regulatory charge whereas what the federal

00:09:00.660 government has done is taken the money levied through the carbon tax and tried

00:09:04.860 to basically bribe Canadians I should have actually brought it over here but I 1.00

00:09:10.020 got it my in my mailbox that little climate action incentive postcard where

00:09:14.160 the federal government is trying to say we're gonna give you this much money

00:09:17.160 because of the carbon tax and one of the points that was argued by the

00:09:22.860 government of Ontario's lawyer was that you can't say that this is helping

00:09:27.100 emissions or anything when you could use that climate action incentive rebate to

00:09:32.600 do something that is terrible for the environment you could take it and say I'm

00:09:36.000 gonna put it towards a payment on my Hummer you could take it and say I'm gonna

00:09:39.820 just buy a bunch of fuel and light it on fire you could use that for pretty much

00:09:44.440 anything you want but it's a general bribe and regardless of how much carbon you

00:09:51.160 use how many emissions you're responsible for everyone in Canada in Ontario is

00:09:55.840 getting the same amount of rebate because it's depending on where they

00:10:00.960 live and not what they actually do and the carbon price is punitive but the

00:10:08.620 heartbreaking part of it is that a great majority of people do not have the

00:10:13.000 ability to live any less reliant a life on carbon and I want to read a couple of

00:10:20.800 comments here on this Brenda says hi Andrew well hi Brenda thanks for tuning in

00:10:24.520 Steve O'Halloran has joined hey Steve thanks for tuning in here Cheryl writes

00:10:28.900 there is no way I can change my behavior to be more carbon neutral this is key this

00:10:35.980 is absolutely key now I use myself as an example right now because I don't drive

00:10:40.120 that lot a lot I work from home I fly a lot I travel a lot for work and the

00:10:45.460 airlines have to pass along the rising cost of fuel to consumers no company is

00:10:50.380 going to eat a cost they have to pass it on so there is a reason that I travel when I

00:10:56.680 have to cover the carbon tax case I need to be in Toronto when I'm going over to

00:11:00.820 the United Kingdom in a couple of weeks to cover a case I have to fly there I

00:11:04.000 can't do that so that money gets paid for by me or by whoever it is for whom I'm

00:11:09.940 working when I travel and I need to send that bill so this is not something that I can choose to do

00:11:16.760 less of and maybe I could choose a different career fine but let's take a

00:11:21.620 trucker who lives in Ottawa long-distance trucker who is responsible for you know

00:11:26.380 picking up the oranges that are sent to a distribution center somewhere and

00:11:30.560 driving them to a distribution center in Ottawa where another trucker will pick

00:11:34.460 them up and bring them to grocery stores well if you want an orange in

00:11:39.080 downtown Ottawa there is no way to get it that doesn't involve that orange being

00:11:44.060 flown from Florida driven from the cargo hold to the distribution center driven

00:11:49.220 from that dis I mean the list goes on of all of these things if he's a self

00:11:54.140 employed trucker he can't eat that cost he's got to pay the carbon tax he's got

00:12:00.920 to pass along to the grocery stores who pass along to the consumer and someone

00:12:05.660 who lives in downtown Toronto that has a minuscule carbon footprint has to pay that

00:12:11.480 carbon tax just because they want an orange and I'm sorry but not everyone is

00:12:15.740 going to be growing these things in a greenhouse on the roof of your downtown

00:12:19.360 Toronto condo so the whole point of this is that it is punitive it's not meant to

00:12:24.600 curb behavior because a lot of people do not have the luxury of being able to

00:12:29.120 change the behaviors that the government is trying to change and this is why this

00:12:35.540 whole idea that the federal government has put forward they don't know it's a

00:12:38.780 regulatory charge because we're trying to encourage people to live differently what

00:12:44.060 the government is arguing in court under oath is that they are attempting to

00:12:48.800 manipulate Canadians that's what this whole thing is it is an effort by the 0.78

00:12:53.160 federal government to manipulate Canadians into behaving the way the

00:12:57.860 federal government wants you to behave irrespective of science and

00:13:02.060 irrespective of the cost that this approach has when it comes to the

00:13:06.400 environment Brenda writes they want us all on transit but you certainly won't see

00:13:12.320 Trudeau taking the subway bus etc no and look I realize that as the Prime

00:13:17.400 Minister we don't necessarily want him waiting on the subway line or the LRT

00:13:20.860 line but Brenda raises an important point here which is that we just learned

00:13:24.820 in the last few days that Trudeau has been spending tens of thousands of

00:13:28.900 dollars in special flights to go on vacations and releasing I don't know the

00:13:34.800 exact number but a monumental amount of greenhouse gas emissions into the

00:13:39.900 environment which he doesn't have to do he could say we're gonna take all our

00:13:44.280 vacations in Gatineau we're gonna take all our vacations within the walking

00:13:48.040 distance of Rideau cottage but no he says look I want to fly here he has that right

00:13:55.440 he has the ability to do that that is part of the things about living in a free

00:14:00.180 country that I love but he has the gall to do that well lecturing every other

00:14:06.060 Canadian about the need to rein in what they're responsible for when it comes to

00:14:10.860 emissions into the environment and that is such a tremendous

00:14:15.180 hip a tremendous hypocrisy here that I think Trudeau is somehow being given a pass

00:14:22.560 on by his supporters and Catherine McKenna same sort of thing so I bring this

00:14:28.380 around to the arguments at foot in the case and that is predominantly that the

00:14:34.740 federal government says no no no this isn't a tax this is a regulatory charge

00:14:38.340 the provincial government says no the other dimension of this that I want to

00:14:42.500 share and I'm going to apologize in advance if this comes across as

00:14:45.820 excessively boring but it is important because this is when I talked about the

00:14:52.140 federal government trying to rewrite the rules of federal governance what it is to

00:14:55.980 which I'm referring there is a things and the federal government is able to do

00:15:00.240 other things in those lists of things that the federal government does being

00:15:05.740 able to impose a carbon tax on provinces is not listed there is no reason that the

00:15:12.220 federal government should be doing this Ontario argues the federal government

00:15:18.020 argues that it is allowed to do so under one particular branch of the

00:15:24.000 Constitution and this is under the doctrine that's called POG peace order and

00:15:27.880 good government there's a section about national concern doctrine or the

00:15:32.240 national concern branch if an issue is deemed of national concern the federal

00:15:38.340 government is able to legislate on it even if it trumps provincial

00:15:42.720 jurisdiction and the issue of national concern the government argues is that

00:15:48.380 greenhouse gas emissions are a national concern so the federal government does

00:15:55.100 actually actually believe that it has the right to regulate greenhouse gas emissions

00:16:01.940 because provinces can't but clearly provinces can and I look at Ontario as a

00:16:08.880 fascinating example of this Ontario has believe it or not reduced emissions in the last 15 years by

00:16:17.720 22 percent the target set out by the federal government is 30 percent so

00:16:22.780 Ontario has already gotten a significant way to the 30 percent target that the

00:16:27.960 federal government was the one that set and a big part of this was because of

00:16:31.940 the phase-out of coal-fired electricity generation but Ontario has been a leader in

00:16:37.480 this and this is something that you can look back to the Kathleen Wynne and Dalton

00:16:41.240 McGinty governments whether you like them or not this is something they did so

00:16:45.680 Ontario is already ahead of the pack here and one of the judges of the Court of

00:16:51.200 Appeal for Ontario actually asked the federal lawyer look Ontario is getting

00:16:55.460 already to 30 percent we've 20 percent so far why does it need to be a carbon

00:17:01.100 tax if they can get there another way why does it need to be a price on carbon

00:17:06.060 that you impose on them and there was no really good answer all she said as well

00:17:12.080 we're not here to talk about what the best way is we're here just to talk about the

00:17:15.680 fact that yes they need to do it and the federal government has the right to

00:17:19.140 make it happen so I find this to be very disingenuous by the federal

00:17:25.640 government I'll explain why because if the federal government succeeds in saying

00:17:30.740 that it has the right to regulate greenhouse gas emissions because of

00:17:34.520 national concern then the federal government would have the right to

00:17:38.600 regulate everything that causes greenhouse gas emissions under the same

00:17:43.840 license and this is not my own conspiracy theory this is a theory that

00:17:47.960 was advanced by the court this was a theory that was advanced by the Ontario

00:17:52.080 government's lawyer by Saskatchewan government's lawyer and by a number of

00:17:55.720 legal scholars that it would give the federal government the ability to say you

00:18:00.320 have to ban wood stoves in the province of Manitoba you have to stop heating your home on

00:18:06.980 above you know 22 degrees in the province of Ontario you can't drive your

00:18:12.260 cars on weekends or weekdays between 7 a.m. and 9 a.m. in the province of

00:18:18.560 British Columbia because these things all cause greenhouse gas emissions which

00:18:23.380 we think are an issue of national concern again this is not me just

00:18:30.200 conjecturing or speculating this is an argument that was put forward by the

00:18:33.980 court and by lawyers in the court saying if you're going to claim that greenhouse

00:18:38.120 gas emissions are a national concern how can you not then be justified in

00:18:43.220 restricting outside of your mandate everything that causes them and all the

00:18:47.940 federal government's lawyer could say was well we that won't happen really so

00:18:54.880 the federal government's position I just want to make this very clear is just

00:18:58.520 trust us that is the federal government's claim that we can just trust that it

00:19:02.840 will limit itself and she actually at one point said the lawyer who again she's

00:19:07.600 doing her job she's a lawyer she is not the problem here it's her client that's 0.78

00:19:11.420 the problem but she had said well you know the legislation in the future can be

00:19:15.380 self-limiting this was effectively the federal government's argument and what

00:19:19.660 was that old Ronald Reagan line the you know the most terrifying words in the

00:19:23.680 English language I'm from the government and I'm here to help well just trust us I'd

00:19:28.600 say is right behind that or at least at the same level here Randy writes I don't

00:19:34.180 know why BC gas is going up if they already had a carbon tax well Randy I'm

00:19:39.400 glad you mentioned that so gas naturally fluctuates and we're dealing with a

00:19:43.600 period where there's a great deal of instability in this but my point is that

00:19:48.800 the carbon tax further adds the carbon tax further adds on these burdens I mean

00:19:54.520 yeah the price of gas in BC is ridiculous but the carbon tax has made it even

00:19:58.780 more ridiculous and untenable Sherry writes Trudeau can fly anywhere while

00:20:04.080 being a hypocrite on top of the carbon emission from his multiple personal

00:20:07.780 vacations and jets and RCMP protection and lavish expenses carbon tax is a tax

00:20:14.020 grab and nothing else I hope here in Alberta Jason Kenney will repeal it well the

00:20:18.160 good news is he's already pledged to a premier designate Jason Kenney who I've got a

00:20:22.760 great deal of time and respect for has said that he won't only get rid of the

00:20:26.540 Alberta carbon tax he'll also fight the federal carbon tax but this is the

00:20:34.280 challenge here is that the second that he repeals the Alberta federal carbon or

00:20:38.580 the Alberta carbon tax the federal carbon tax goes into effect so Trudeau will

00:20:43.940 once again be imposing on a province that doesn't want it and doesn't need it a

00:20:47.840 carbon tax Bob writes this country has no mass transit that allows rural people to

00:20:53.780 travel about other than their cars or trucks this will destroy any tourism to

00:20:57.740 cottage country in Ontario if people cannot afford to travel I'm retired and

00:21:02.600 trust me my pension has not increased anywhere close to what my expenses are

00:21:06.020 going up I drive a car and that is getting too expensive yeah and this is one

00:21:11.240 of the big things Bob and I thank you for that that came about in Prince Edward

00:21:16.260 Island now PEI had its election last week the PCs won but remember the PCs and

00:21:22.200 PEI are not particularly conservative it's just not a conservative province it's a

00:21:27.460 lot more community focused and tight-knit and I'm not saying the

00:21:31.080 conservatism is at odds with community but just that the dynamic is different

00:21:35.640 than it is anywhere else so the provincial government called in the

00:21:39.720 election the carbon tax the tax grab but now is saying they have no interest in

00:21:43.860 fighting it and again no offense to PEI one of our great writers at true north

00:21:48.960 lives in PEI I'm not objecting to the province itself but it's not the hugest

00:21:53.820 deal when it comes to the impact that PEI has on policy nationwide but again one

00:22:00.240 point that I found interesting from the premier designate of PEI premier

00:22:04.620 designate King is that he's saying well you know okay we're not gonna fight the

00:22:07.900 federal government but we want the federal government to be more respectful of the

00:22:12.120 PEI dynamic and that we don't have any province-wide transit we have cars we

00:22:17.900 have cut that's the only way to get around there so his argument I think is

00:22:22.960 kind of undercutting his own point which is that the federal imposed imposition of

00:22:28.020 a carbon tax doesn't respect local provinces can find their own solutions and

00:22:32.900 local provinces can have their own dynamics that are not respected by this and

00:22:39.500 Janelle writes yeah trust in government don't go together put that on a bumper

00:22:44.320 sticker Janelle because it's never gonna be less true at all and you know it's

00:22:48.560 funny Janelle and Randy are both saying we need out of the UN and and I want to

00:22:53.540 talk about the UN here because it was quite dangerous and I'd say quite

00:22:58.420 terrifying that during the federal carbon tax or during the provincial carbon tax

00:23:04.820 hearing in court in Toronto a couple of weeks ago the federal government kept

00:23:09.800 utilizing its UN targets its Paris Climate Accords targets as being part of

00:23:15.940 the rationale for why the federal carbon tax has to be protected this this is what

00:23:22.000 they were doing they were saying oh well no no but it's important because we have

00:23:25.260 these these climate targets we put to the UN and no we need to meet these climate

00:23:29.820 targets we this is the act and the compact if you will that was said to

00:23:35.120 Canadians to be non-binding and now it's being used as the basis in court for

00:23:41.700 imposing top-down taxing on Canadians so this is again when we talked about the UN

00:23:48.780 migration compact and people like Candace Malcolm and Anthony Fury and myself

00:23:53.700 were saying no no they say non-binding don't believe it this is how because yes it

00:23:58.260 might be non-binding but then it becomes the baseline for government to do other

00:24:03.240 things that are binding because they say oh well we've got to make good on this

00:24:07.380 and we've got to meet this compact and this promise and this pledge and this

00:24:11.160 accord and all of that and as Steve O'Halloran points out here Trudeau is more

00:24:16.300 interested in winning friends and favor and winning a seat at the United Nations

00:24:21.140 the unit that he isn't making sure that Canadians are being looked after by their

00:24:26.160 government and if you want proof of this look at the fact that there were five

00:24:30.120 now six provinces in Canada seven provinces actually with a conservative

00:24:34.980 government right across you've got BC which doesn't count because it's just BC

00:24:39.660 they're always crazy over there and you've got Alberta conservative

00:24:43.660 Saskatchewan conservative Manitoba conservative Ontario conservative Quebec

00:24:48.240 conservative New Brunswick PEI there's seven you've got one of the

00:24:52.920 territories as well that's more conservative in nature though

00:24:56.280 technically independent you've got a Newfoundland election coming up soon

00:25:00.060 which I don't know which way it's gonna go but again even on the carbon tax

00:25:04.860 alone you went from one province Saskatchewan a couple of years ago to now

00:25:10.140 five and a half that are against the Prime Minister on this and this is what

00:25:15.220 happens when Canadians feel like Trudeau is more interested at focusing on the UN

00:25:20.820 and you know the big giant save the world stuff than on actual governance and

00:25:27.060 let me tell you the problem with this I live in London Ontario and I haven't

00:25:32.040 really been here much in the last couple of months but I'm here now back for a

00:25:35.520 couple of weeks and you know it's a great city the council that we just

00:25:39.900 elected is a lot better than the council we had before but I was quite upset that

00:25:45.300 when I came back from covering the carbon tax trial I learned that my city council

00:25:51.180 had voted to declare a state of emergency because of climate change

00:25:58.980 yes this is I mean this is it my city voted I think it was what was the number

00:26:05.680 it was 13 no 12 to 3 there are 15 members of council including the mayor and they

00:26:10.920 voted 12 to 3 to declare a climate change emergency in the city and I think

00:26:16.140 Montreal did this as well I think Ottawa may have done this a couple of other

00:26:19.080 cities have done it and firstly it's completely baseless useless virtue

00:26:25.140 signaling that does nothing secondly if there's an emergency what are you doing

00:26:31.300 about and this is the whole thing is that if there is actually an emergency how

00:26:34.800 dare you drive a car if there's actually an emergency how dare you buy food and

00:26:39.360 products that have been imported there's an emergency because all of the

00:26:42.740 people that say it's an emergency are complete and utter hypocrites you get a

00:26:46.880 couple you get a couple that are genuinely good honest non-hypocritical

00:26:52.760 people you know I know someone who is actually a lovely wonderful person

00:26:57.220 she's committed to a zero waste lifestyle she emits in her life zero waste she 0.55

00:27:03.180 buys things that have only been reused she grows a lot of stuff she makes a lot of

00:27:07.980 stuff obviously she's got some footprint but for the most part she's leading by

00:27:12.900 example and I've got a lot more respect for that than I do for the people that

00:27:17.640 like Prince Charles or Leo DiCaprio get off their private jets to tell everyone

00:27:21.780 else they have to change then get back on the jet and go to their second house or

00:27:26.100 Justin Trudeau who you know takes a plane trip my favorite was the day that he went

00:27:30.780 from Ottawa to Toronto and back I think twice in a day and then the next day did it

00:27:35.760 again and he tells us oh no no it's you know the family of four in the minivan

00:27:41.400 that's causing all the problems so the people that are genuinely leading by

00:27:46.620 example in their lives by the way are not the ones telling everyone else what to do

00:27:50.940 the people telling everyone else what to do are these climate hypocrite hucksters

00:27:56.100 that are declaring a state of emergency in a municipal government and by the way

00:28:01.440 there are good people that vote for these motions because they feel they have to I'm

00:28:04.880 talking about the people that are aggressively driving this agenda and it

00:28:08.780 all ultimately leads back to people like Justin Trudeau and Catherine McKenna

00:28:13.280 saying ah but the UN and when I heard the federal government citing the

00:28:18.020 supposedly non-binding Paris climate accord in court as being a reason that the

00:28:24.260 federal carbon tax must be declared constitutional it was an example of just

00:28:29.500 how deeply ingrained that flawed mindset is that is being used to trample on

00:28:35.740 provincial jurisdiction and by extension to trample on individual Canadians rights

00:28:40.960 and this is only going to get worse which is why I'm glad that we've got five

00:28:47.740 provinces that are linking arms and fighting back the resistance as Maclean's

00:28:51.940 called it is now stronger and it may well be that the carbon tax dies in the

00:28:57.500 election in October before it dies in court because remember it's also got to

00:29:01.400 go through and become a Supreme Court case so we're not looking at a short-term

00:29:05.600 battle here in the eyes of what's happening in court so I bring all of this

00:29:10.520 up so you understand exactly why it was important to cover it and what the stakes

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Juno News - April 28, 2019

Five provinces are united in opposing Justin Trudeau's carbon tax in court.

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