The last thing we need now is a carbon tax
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Summary
A carbon tax is not something we should be focusing on right now. We should be putting our priorities right now on things like shoring up the economy, making our healthcare system stronger, and protecting the elderly, the vulnerable, and the most vulnerable.
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These past couple weeks, Canadians have been calling on their government to do a whole lot
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of things. And I'm going to wager that one of those things they've been asking for has not been
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to call for the implementation of a carbon tax. In fact, I'm going to imagine that only the most
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ideologically persistent of carbon tax fans have even thought about this darn thing the past few
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weeks. Why? Well, because we've gotten our priorities straight. We're seeing right now what matters in
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this current moment. Things like shoring up the economy from destruction, making our healthcare
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system as strong as it can be, protecting the elderly, the most vulnerable people with pre-existing
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conditions. Something like the carbon tax, it's a frill. It's an idealistic sideshow. Obviously,
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it is not something to be focused on right now for a number of, I think, pretty self-evident reasons.
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For one, human activity has greatly decreased, meaning, of course, our emissions have decreased.
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The oil and gas sector is really hurting the stock market, particularly those stocks, that sector on
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the markets. They have taken major hits. And then number two, while you want to hit the consumer with
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an everyday tax at the pumps now, when so many people are losing their jobs, and once we are out
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of this, we are inevitably going to see some sort of taxation or something brought in for us to pay
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down these massive debts that we have accumulated to help our fellow man at these very dire times.
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Not at all. No way. No more carbon tax. And yet, kind of interestingly, we've seen a number of voices
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step forward and say why climate alarmism is needed now more than ever. We've seen a couple editorials
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talking about. This just shows, for some reason, why the climate change fight is more urgent than
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ever and why we have to prioritize it. Look, if we can fight about something as insignificant as the
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coronavirus, if we can tackle that, then surely we should then rise to the occasion tenfold from what
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we're doing now to battle climate change. I wish I was exaggerating, but we've pretty much seen
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bizarre arguments like that. On a similar note, we've seen Earth Hour being promoted quite heavily.
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It happened Saturday evening. I actually laughed when I saw that, you know, it was still considered
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a thing. I mean, most other things have been put on hold, events, activities, because we realize how
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frivolous they look, how unnecessary they are in the face of shutting down society and keeping the
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coronavirus battle going. But oh no, oh no, Earth Hour must continue. Wow. And we see that the Earth Hour
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and World Wildlife Federation and all the different groups that promote it said, now more than ever,
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Earth Hour is important at this time. So it should be self-evident to most that these climate change
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priorities, particularly the carbon tax, are not things we should be focusing on right now. But
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sadly, some of the chatter out there tells us that some minds are still very wired in that direction.
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But for the rest of us, one thing we're going to have to say to governments once we slowly start
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getting back to normal is, can we just say goodbye to that pesky carbon tax? Because now more than ever,