Juno News - August 10, 2018


Is the carbon tax dead？

Mentioned
Trudeau Patrick Brown Kathleen Wynne Lori Goldstein Rachel Notley Jason Kenney David Suzuki Brad Wall Scott Moe Doug Ford
The City of Victoria, BC is ERADICATING history! Illegal vs ＂Irregular＂

Episode Stats


Length

4 minutes

Words per minute

144.08

Word count

665

Sentence count

36

Harmful content

Hate speech

1

sentences flagged


Summary

Summaries generated with gmurro/bart-large-finetuned-filtered-spotify-podcast-summ .

The jig is up, and the liberal carbon tax racket is coming apart at the seams. As recently as early 2018, it seemed like a foregone conclusion that the Liberals would impose their carbon tax from coast to coast. Now, the wheels are coming off the cart and the Liberals are fighting back.

Transcript

Transcript generated with Whisper (turbo).
Hate speech classifications generated with facebook/roberta-hate-speech-dynabench-r4-target .
Hosts, guests, and mentioned names generated with spaCy (en_core_web_sm), reconciled against Wikidata.
00:00:00.000 The jig is up and the liberal carbon tax racket is coming apart at the seams.
00:00:14.480 As recently as early 2018, it seemed like a foregone conclusion that the liberals would
00:00:18.920 impose their carbon tax from coast to coast.
00:00:22.180 The Trudeau government mandated the tax hike but ordered that the province impose and administer
00:00:26.940 the tax.
00:00:28.360 It's pretty crafty politics since the provincial government and not Trudeau and his team of
00:00:33.120 climate zealots will carry the burden of imposing the largest tax increase in a generation.
00:00:40.480 The government of Ontario with former Liberal Premier Kathleen Wynne and in Alberta with
00:00:46.180 NDP Rachel Notley both won election victories without mentioning the carbon tax, only to
00:00:52.420 quickly impose it after being elected.
00:00:55.100 The sole glimmer of hope for Canadian taxpayers came from Saskatchewan.
00:00:59.860 First with Premier Brad Wall, who firmly told the Trudeau government that he refused to
00:01:04.560 impose the tax.
00:01:05.560 If the feds wanted to force carbon taxes onto Saskatchewan, well, they'd have to do it
00:01:10.440 through court.
00:01:11.860 Wall retired last year and his successor, Scott Moe, picked up right where Wall left off.
00:01:18.440 The powerful climate lobby in Ontario pressured former PC leader Patrick Brown to include carbon
00:01:25.200 taxes in his platform, despite the tax being deeply unpopular.
00:01:29.960 Well, a twist of fate spurred by some shoddy journalism over at CTV and an anonymous accusation that
00:01:35.520 turned out to be based on lies, well, that led to the ousting of Brown as leader, replaced
00:01:40.680 with the outspoken carbon critic Doug Ford.
00:01:44.800 On June 7th, Ford was elected in a landslide to become Ontario Premier.
00:01:49.720 He became Ontario Premier on June 29th, and he pledged to scrap the $2 billion carbon pricing
00:01:55.380 scheme and pull Ontario out of the notoriously fraudulent cap-and-trade system with Quebec
00:02:01.400 and California.
00:02:02.440 He's already taken meaningful steps to dismantle that disastrous system.
00:02:07.660 We're also less than a year away from the provincial election in Alberta, where polls show the United
00:02:12.500 Conservative leader Jason Kenney holds a commanding lead and is favoured to oust the NDP government.
00:02:18.460 Kenney is a fierce critic of carbon taxes, and has vowed to work with Ford and Moe to challenge
00:02:24.960 the constitutionality of Trudeau's tax mandate.
00:02:27.940 Well, just like that, the tables have turned in Canada.
00:02:32.820 Of course, the Liberals are not going down without a fight, and the usual green evangelists 1.00
00:02:37.640 have ratcheted up their name-calling and their fear-mongering campaign over climate change.
00:02:43.940 Ford is accused of being committed to reducing carbon emissions, but without having
00:02:48.420 a specific alternative plan.
00:02:51.180 But the reality is that even with the heavy-handed carbon taxes, Canada has no hope of reaching
00:02:57.020 Trudeau's pie-in-the-sky pledges to make the Paris Climate Agreement.
00:03:03.240 In other words, the Liberal Enviro alarmists don't really have a plan either.
00:03:07.920 As my colleague Lori Goldstein in the Toronto Sun put it in a recent column, quote,
00:03:13.260 Everyone who can add has concluded that hell will freeze over before Canada meets its 2020
00:03:19.680 or 2030 emission reductions promises that Trudeau made to the UN, unquote.
00:03:25.480 Interestingly, a new study from researchers at Cambridge University predicts that new technology
00:03:32.240 and changing attitudes will make fossil fuels increasingly undesirable and eventually obsolete.
00:03:38.480 The study states that, quote,
00:03:40.620 This study prompted far-left climate fanatic David Suzuki to conclude,
00:03:56.920 The carbon bubble will burst with or without government action, unquote.
00:04:01.920 Well, if that's the case, why would we burden Canadian families with a regressive and punitive tax?
00:04:08.920 Easy. We shouldn't.
00:04:10.920 For the True North Initiative, I'm Candice Malcolm.
00:04:12.920 Thank you so much for watching.
00:04:15.920 If you like this video and you want to see more just like it, please subscribe.
00:04:18.920 You can do that right here.
00:04:19.920 Or sign up for our newsletter here.
00:04:21.920 You should also follow us on all of our social media accounts.
00:04:24.920 Club members also receive exclusive content, True North Initiative swag, and early access to our videos.
00:04:31.920 Find out more in the link below.
00:04:33.920 I hope you join us.
00:04:34.920 And thanks again for watching this video.