Juno News - The carbon tax isn’t the end goal – what comes next will be even wilder, like a meat tax

In this episode of True North, I talk about the carbon tax, and why we need to focus on what comes after it, rather than what we have now. The carbon tax is the front lines, and it s up to us to hold the front line.

00:00:00.000 hey everyone anthony fury here great to be doing my first video of 2019 for true north and the

00:00:10.780 issue that i want to talk to you about is one that it was big in 2018 it is only going to ramp

00:00:16.760 up further in the year ahead the federal carbon tax you got the saskatchewan court reference

00:00:21.700 question you got jason kenney probably becoming the premier of alberta a big fighter against it

00:00:26.620 and you got the federal election where justin should go and katherine mckenna you better believe

00:00:30.460 they're going to try and shame us all into submission get us to stop worrying and learn

00:00:35.160 to love the carbon tax well i ain't doing it it's not happening no thanks take the pass

00:00:40.420 but here's an added reason why and there's an angle that i think we need to bring in

00:00:45.720 to our conversations about the carbon tax which which has been missing from a lot of the public

00:00:49.860 discussion which is what happens next all the true believers out there they say this requires a

00:00:57.320 whole of society approach we have to do massive sacrifices elizabeth may likens what we need to 1.00

00:01:02.960 do as a society to the evacuation at dunkirk she wants all hands on deck you know justin trudeau is

00:01:09.840 somewhat a fellow traveler certainly a true believer in the carbon tax so when trudeau if and when i hope

00:01:15.380 he doesn't cement the carbon tax as a permanent fait accompli but if he does if it becomes like

00:01:19.960 the gst just a thing that sticks around forever even if we don't like it do you think he's just

00:01:26.000 going to say well well done we saved the planet moving on next issue no for his entire tenure and

00:01:32.460 probably like-minded prime ministers who come after him they are going to come up with even more

00:01:38.220 notions even more aggressive even more outlandish approaches like what well here's an example something

00:01:43.920 that i've followed for a while now a meat tax it's a thing researchers academics and activists talk

00:01:49.940 about in their in their circles a number of university reports uh pita they want to see this

00:01:55.200 brought in a meat tax exactly what it sounds like jacking up the price on meat like a syntax to treat

00:02:01.060 it like alcohol or like cigarettes so it's really expensive to afford and families cut it out of their diet

00:02:06.920 they want to see less meat because they want to see less livestock and they want to see the end of

00:02:11.100 farming sounds crazy but they're doing it and when you pause and think about it the carbon tax

00:02:15.560 it kind of packs on everything well that sounds sort of crazy as well so that is my cautionary tale

00:02:21.420 that we need to really bring in here into this conversation i don't know if we'll give them any

00:02:25.540 tax there are other things out there that they're floating but when the carbon tax is implemented when

00:02:30.360 it's there what comes after it and that's why in this this battle as elizabeth may likens it to this

00:02:36.640 this herculean world war effort you gotta ask yourself the carbon tax is the front lines and

00:02:42.720 you gotta hold the front line as if not they're not done they advance when they have a next line

00:02:48.260 the next battle they do right after

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Juno News - January 09, 2019

The carbon tax isn’t the end goal – what comes next will be even wilder, like a meat tax

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