Juno News - August 28, 2019


The carbon tax is going up (as expected)!


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3 minutes

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619

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1

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The carbon tax is not standing still. It's not going to stand still any longer, and it's time to pay the price for all the carbon taxes that the government has been promising since 2016. And the price we pay is going to go up.

Transcript

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00:00:00.000 there's been one major argument at the core of how the Liberal government has
00:00:13.360 gotten people to stop worrying and learn to love the carbon tax now that obviously
00:00:18.080 hasn't happened in many cases but for those who have been placated what's done
00:00:22.680 it for them is the promise that don't worry it's only going to be a $50 per
00:00:27.600 ton tax starting pretty small about $25 and then we'll slowly increase it year
00:00:32.220 by year to ease it into place oh and by the way we'll give you a little rebate
00:00:36.180 a climate action incentive to make it easy for you and in some families cases
00:00:40.740 it'll make you better off wow it's gonna clean the environment and make people
00:00:45.540 richer why didn't I think of that is surely what every politician should be
00:00:49.260 wondering hold on a second though a bit of a spanner in the works Environment
00:00:53.640 Minister Catherine McKenna so headlines tell us this week she's fessed up and 0.98
00:00:58.260 she said that well $50 per ton it may not be the absolute final tally maybe a
00:01:04.680 little later it might go up a bit hmm and this is where things start to fall apart
00:01:09.480 where the wheels come off the bus because the higher it gets well the greater the
00:01:14.520 carbon taxes the more that the average family is gonna have to shell out the
00:01:18.840 the current estimates say it's gonna cost families depending what province you're in
00:01:22.260 and what your usage is somewhere between $700 a month to $1,500 a month or so but
00:01:27.420 will still give you that rebate don't worry well part of the problem with that is you
00:01:31.320 still have to float the costs until tax time you're talking about a whole lot of
00:01:34.860 money and the higher the tax goes the higher the rebate goes the higher this
00:01:38.460 becomes a pretty elaborate shell game can we handle it can the government keep
00:01:43.400 it all together Catherine McKenna she's being pretty wishy-washy on all of this
00:01:47.580 but we should not be surprised by this I wrote a column a year ago saying that
00:01:52.920 government documents have made it clear for years now since 2016 for three years
00:01:59.760 that they were never actually planning to keep it at $50 per ton so they go from
00:02:05.280 now until 2022 and that's where they increase it to $50 per ton but their
00:02:11.880 various different memoranda say come 2022 they will do a review that looks at
00:02:17.340 increasing the stringency they use language like that they don't actually
00:02:21.240 say we're gonna increase the tax but they make it pretty clear oh is this
00:02:25.140 doing everything it should be doing if not well we'll take another look we'll
00:02:28.980 review the program increase it it's rather funny that once they get to 50 it's
00:02:33.360 probably not gonna sit at 50 almost right away they go we've got to increase it
00:02:37.860 further what will it be to the $102 per ton that one government document says
00:02:42.040 what about the $300 per ton that one UN report says should be the minimum amount
00:02:47.760 and then they go much much higher well folks it's all on the table and as you
00:02:52.960 know I've been warning and predicting that a meat tax will be a thing that we
00:02:56.260 might see soon because there's a lot of conversation about how livestock and just
00:03:01.140 the general creation of meat and high protein diets they have a major carbon
00:03:05.080 footprint they'll be looking at going after that next so the carbon tax it's
00:03:09.520 not standing still and unfortunately this is something of an I told you say so
00:03:14.380 moment so be warned because next time around they'll be looking to jack it up