Juno News - January 09, 2019The carbon tax isn’t the end goal – what comes next will be even wilder, like a meat tax
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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.
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hey everyone anthony fury here great to be doing my first video of 2019 for true north and the
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issue that i want to talk to you about is one that it was big in 2018 it is only going to ramp
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up further in the year ahead the federal carbon tax you got the saskatchewan court reference
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question you got jason kenney probably becoming the premier of alberta a big fighter against it
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and you got the federal election where justin should go and katherine mckenna you better believe
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they're going to try and shame us all into submission get us to stop worrying and learn
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to love the carbon tax well i ain't doing it it's not happening no thanks take the pass
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but here's an added reason why and there's an angle that i think we need to bring in
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to our conversations about the carbon tax which which has been missing from a lot of the public
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discussion which is what happens next all the true believers out there they say this requires a
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whole of society approach we have to do massive sacrifices elizabeth may likens what we need to
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do as a society to the evacuation at dunkirk she wants all hands on deck you know justin trudeau is
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somewhat a fellow traveler certainly a true believer in the carbon tax so when trudeau if and when i hope
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he doesn't cement the carbon tax as a permanent fait accompli but if he does if it becomes like
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the gst just a thing that sticks around forever even if we don't like it do you think he's just
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going to say well well done we saved the planet moving on next issue no for his entire tenure and
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probably like-minded prime ministers who come after him they are going to come up with even more
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notions even more aggressive even more outlandish approaches like what well here's an example something
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that i've followed for a while now a meat tax it's a thing researchers academics and activists talk
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about in their in their circles a number of university reports uh pita they want to see this
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brought in a meat tax exactly what it sounds like jacking up the price on meat like a syntax to treat
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it like alcohol or like cigarettes so it's really expensive to afford and families cut it out of their diet
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they want to see less meat because they want to see less livestock and they want to see the end of
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farming sounds crazy but they're doing it and when you pause and think about it the carbon tax
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it kind of packs on everything well that sounds sort of crazy as well so that is my cautionary tale
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that we need to really bring in here into this conversation i don't know if we'll give them any
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tax there are other things out there that they're floating but when the carbon tax is implemented when
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it's there what comes after it and that's why in this this battle as elizabeth may likens it to this
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this herculean world war effort you gotta ask yourself the carbon tax is the front lines and
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you gotta hold the front line as if not they're not done they advance when they have a next line