Is the carbon tax dead？
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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.
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The jig is up and the liberal carbon tax racket is coming apart at the seams.
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As recently as early 2018, it seemed like a foregone conclusion that the liberals would
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The Trudeau government mandated the tax hike but ordered that the province impose and administer
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It's pretty crafty politics since the provincial government and not Trudeau and his team of
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climate zealots will carry the burden of imposing the largest tax increase in a generation.
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The government of Ontario with former Liberal Premier Kathleen Wynne and in Alberta with
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NDP Rachel Notley both won election victories without mentioning the carbon tax, only to
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The sole glimmer of hope for Canadian taxpayers came from Saskatchewan.
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First with Premier Brad Wall, who firmly told the Trudeau government that he refused to
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If the feds wanted to force carbon taxes onto Saskatchewan, well, they'd have to do it
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Wall retired last year and his successor, Scott Moe, picked up right where Wall left off.
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The powerful climate lobby in Ontario pressured former PC leader Patrick Brown to include carbon
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taxes in his platform, despite the tax being deeply unpopular.
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Well, a twist of fate spurred by some shoddy journalism over at CTV and an anonymous accusation that
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turned out to be based on lies, well, that led to the ousting of Brown as leader, replaced
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On June 7th, Ford was elected in a landslide to become Ontario Premier.
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He became Ontario Premier on June 29th, and he pledged to scrap the $2 billion carbon pricing
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scheme and pull Ontario out of the notoriously fraudulent cap-and-trade system with Quebec
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He's already taken meaningful steps to dismantle that disastrous system.
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We're also less than a year away from the provincial election in Alberta, where polls show the United
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Conservative leader Jason Kenney holds a commanding lead and is favoured to oust the NDP government.
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Kenney is a fierce critic of carbon taxes, and has vowed to work with Ford and Moe to challenge
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the constitutionality of Trudeau's tax mandate.
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Well, just like that, the tables have turned in Canada.
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Of course, the Liberals are not going down without a fight, and the usual green evangelists
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have ratcheted up their name-calling and their fear-mongering campaign over climate change.
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Ford is accused of being committed to reducing carbon emissions, but without having
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But the reality is that even with the heavy-handed carbon taxes, Canada has no hope of reaching
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Trudeau's pie-in-the-sky pledges to make the Paris Climate Agreement.
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In other words, the Liberal Enviro alarmists don't really have a plan either.
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As my colleague Lori Goldstein in the Toronto Sun put it in a recent column, quote,
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Everyone who can add has concluded that hell will freeze over before Canada meets its 2020
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or 2030 emission reductions promises that Trudeau made to the UN, unquote.
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Interestingly, a new study from researchers at Cambridge University predicts that new technology
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and changing attitudes will make fossil fuels increasingly undesirable and eventually obsolete.
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This study prompted far-left climate fanatic David Suzuki to conclude,
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The carbon bubble will burst with or without government action, unquote.
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Well, if that's the case, why would we burden Canadian families with a regressive and punitive tax?
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For the True North Initiative, I'm Candice Malcolm.
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