The Trudeau government doubles down on nonsense
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Summary
The Prime Minister of Canada, Justin Trudeau, is back in hot water for his carbon tax. The Supreme Court of Canada is hearing the case against him and his government, and he's got a point of view on the matter.
Transcript
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This week voters in Alberta decided literally to throw the bums out and got
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rid of Rachel Notley and her NDP government and instead gave a very
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healthy majority to Jason Kenney and his United Conservatives. Kenney, to his
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credit, said the very first thing he will do is repeal the hated carbon tax that
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Notley brought in. He then said he'll join the civil suit that the government of
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Saskatchewan and Ontario are involved with against the federal government to
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try and prevent the federal government from jamming the carbon tax down our
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throats. The trial started this past week in Toronto as many of you saw here
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covered by Andrew Lawton from stem to stern. The carbon taxes is one thing but
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the government seems to double down on stupid by releasing a report last week
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saying that Canada is warming faster than anywhere else on the planet. I don't even
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know how that's possible. Did we somehow magically hang up a thermal blanket along
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the 49th parallel to keep the warm temperatures in or something? I don't
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understand that. Did Russia somehow figure out how to keep their cold Arctic air on
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their side of the the planet so that our Arctic is warming up? It's crazy to even
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even think that and yet that is what they're trying to have us believe. McKenney
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even said this week that our disproportionate warming is an alarming
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reminder of the need to take real action and continue fighting climate change. We can, we
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must and we will, she said. I can't even, I can't even get my head around the logic of
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that. You know, and then they doubled down on stupid by giving 12 million dollars to
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the grocery chain Loblaws ostensibly to upgrade their refrigeration systems.
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I don't even understand where the logic of that is. Loblaws last year posted net
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earnings of over 800 million dollars. Net earnings of 800 million dollars. It's, it
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seems incredible to me that the government could somehow spend your money and my
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money by giving it to one of the wealthiest families in the nation to
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help them upgrade their refrigeration system. This makes no sense to me and I
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doubt it makes very much sense to you. I don't know about you but I just filled up
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my car today and it was the gas cost me a dollar seventy a liter and that's just
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nothing but tax upon tax upon tax. Governments both provincial, municipal, and
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federal have really got to rethink what they're trying to steal from me and you
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at every level. You know, I paid a dollar seventy today when I could drive 30 miles
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south of me to blame Washington and fill it up for the equivalent of 83 cents. You
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know, it's, it's one thing to ask Canadians to bear a bit more of a burden. It's
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another thing to rob us entirely and that seems to me to be exactly what they're
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doing. I don't believe for a moment that, that carbon dioxide that I exhale is
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causing a problem in the, in the atmosphere. Especially when Canada has the
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largest boreal forest in the world and, and plants absorb all that CO2 and, and
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emit oxygen which you and I need to sustain life. This is totally ridiculous to me.
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Somewhere along the way the Prime Minister has decided to rebranded attacks on
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pollution. Really? Well, CO2 is an odorless colorless gas that's present in the
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atmosphere. Pollution is made up of particulates. When they become particularly
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dense then they become a health hazard. How is a carbon tax a tax on pollution? And
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why they're rebranding all of a sudden? I sure as heck don't understand it and, and
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I doubt you do either. But yet they're feeding us this dribble in the hopes that
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we'll continue to happily pay more. Dig deep. Open your wallets to us. We know what
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we're doing with it. Well, I've got a flash. They don't. They're just going to
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waste it. How much is the Prime Minister given to all manner of causes in the
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United Nations and countries all over the, the world that he just isn't spending
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here? How about First Nations who can't get clean drinking water? Could they use a
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little bit of government help? What about the homeless people in cities across this
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country? Could they use a little bit of help? You know, the, giving money to the
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Weston family who own Loblaws to me is just absolutely ridiculous. I can't even
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imagine what they're thinking to, to think that this is a good idea. I, for one, I'm
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getting very fed up with all of this and I hope that governments, all governments, will
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understand there is only one taxpayer. I've only got one wallet and the money
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has to sustain me and, and my family and as well as, as pay taxes. And the more that
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they try and squeeze out of me in taxes, the angrier I get, and trust me, the angrier
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that we get as taxpayers and as voters will backfire on, on the Prime Minister and his