Juno News - March 30, 2020


The last thing we need now is a carbon tax

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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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00:00:00.000 These past couple weeks, Canadians have been calling on their government to do a whole lot
00:00:09.660 of things. And I'm going to wager that one of those things they've been asking for has not been
00:00:14.960 to call for the implementation of a carbon tax. In fact, I'm going to imagine that only the most
00:00:21.020 ideologically persistent of carbon tax fans have even thought about this darn thing the past few 0.98
00:00:27.320 weeks. Why? Well, because we've gotten our priorities straight. We're seeing right now what matters in 0.95
00:00:32.800 this current moment. Things like shoring up the economy from destruction, making our healthcare
00:00:38.060 system as strong as it can be, protecting the elderly, the most vulnerable people with pre-existing
00:00:42.980 conditions. Something like the carbon tax, it's a frill. It's an idealistic sideshow. Obviously,
00:00:48.700 it is not something to be focused on right now for a number of, I think, pretty self-evident reasons.
00:00:54.160 For one, human activity has greatly decreased, meaning, of course, our emissions have decreased.
00:01:00.820 The oil and gas sector is really hurting the stock market, particularly those stocks, that sector on
00:01:06.640 the markets. They have taken major hits. And then number two, while you want to hit the consumer with
00:01:12.880 an everyday tax at the pumps now, when so many people are losing their jobs, and once we are out
00:01:19.080 of this, we are inevitably going to see some sort of taxation or something brought in for us to pay
00:01:24.940 down these massive debts that we have accumulated to help our fellow man at these very dire times.
00:01:30.340 Not at all. No way. No more carbon tax. And yet, kind of interestingly, we've seen a number of voices
00:01:36.760 step forward and say why climate alarmism is needed now more than ever. We've seen a couple editorials
00:01:42.320 talking about. This just shows, for some reason, why the climate change fight is more urgent than
00:01:47.840 ever and why we have to prioritize it. Look, if we can fight about something as insignificant as the
00:01:53.480 coronavirus, if we can tackle that, then surely we should then rise to the occasion tenfold from what
00:01:58.740 we're doing now to battle climate change. I wish I was exaggerating, but we've pretty much seen
00:02:03.280 bizarre arguments like that. On a similar note, we've seen Earth Hour being promoted quite heavily.
00:02:09.220 It happened Saturday evening. I actually laughed when I saw that, you know, it was still considered
00:02:13.820 a thing. I mean, most other things have been put on hold, events, activities, because we realize how
00:02:19.940 frivolous they look, how unnecessary they are in the face of shutting down society and keeping the
00:02:25.480 coronavirus battle going. But oh no, oh no, Earth Hour must continue. Wow. And we see that the Earth Hour
00:02:32.440 and World Wildlife Federation and all the different groups that promote it said, now more than ever,
00:02:36.620 Earth Hour is important at this time. So it should be self-evident to most that these climate change
00:02:44.140 priorities, particularly the carbon tax, are not things we should be focusing on right now. But
00:02:49.860 sadly, some of the chatter out there tells us that some minds are still very wired in that direction.
00:02:56.780 But for the rest of us, one thing we're going to have to say to governments once we slowly start
00:03:01.560 getting back to normal is, can we just say goodbye to that pesky carbon tax? Because now more than ever,
00:03:08.400 we can't afford it.