Juno News - The Trudeau government doubles down on nonsense

00:00:00.000 This week voters in Alberta decided literally to throw the bums out and got 1.00

00:00:15.240 rid of Rachel Notley and her NDP government and instead gave a very

00:00:19.960 healthy majority to Jason Kenney and his United Conservatives. Kenney, to his

00:00:25.640 credit, said the very first thing he will do is repeal the hated carbon tax that

00:00:30.260 Notley brought in. He then said he'll join the civil suit that the government of

00:00:35.480 Saskatchewan and Ontario are involved with against the federal government to

00:00:40.940 try and prevent the federal government from jamming the carbon tax down our

00:00:44.660 throats. The trial started this past week in Toronto as many of you saw here

00:00:51.500 covered by Andrew Lawton from stem to stern. The carbon taxes is one thing but

00:00:59.060 the government seems to double down on stupid by releasing a report last week 0.99

00:01:03.800 saying that Canada is warming faster than anywhere else on the planet. I don't even 1.00

00:01:08.740 know how that's possible. Did we somehow magically hang up a thermal blanket along

00:01:13.760 the 49th parallel to keep the warm temperatures in or something? I don't

00:01:18.760 understand that. Did Russia somehow figure out how to keep their cold Arctic air on

00:01:24.460 their side of the the planet so that our Arctic is warming up? It's crazy to even

00:01:30.260 even think that and yet that is what they're trying to have us believe. McKenney

00:01:35.140 even said this week that our disproportionate warming is an alarming

00:01:39.820 reminder of the need to take real action and continue fighting climate change. We can, we

00:01:44.920 must and we will, she said. I can't even, I can't even get my head around the logic of

00:01:51.520 that. You know, and then they doubled down on stupid by giving 12 million dollars to 1.00

00:01:57.040 the grocery chain Loblaws ostensibly to upgrade their refrigeration systems. 0.99

00:02:04.480 I don't even understand where the logic of that is. Loblaws last year posted net

00:02:11.380 earnings of over 800 million dollars. Net earnings of 800 million dollars. It's, it

00:02:19.180 seems incredible to me that the government could somehow spend your money and my

00:02:24.280 money by giving it to one of the wealthiest families in the nation to

00:02:29.320 help them upgrade their refrigeration system. This makes no sense to me and I

00:02:33.880 doubt it makes very much sense to you. I don't know about you but I just filled up

00:02:39.040 my car today and it was the gas cost me a dollar seventy a liter and that's just

00:02:45.220 nothing but tax upon tax upon tax. Governments both provincial, municipal, and

00:02:52.220 federal have really got to rethink what they're trying to steal from me and you

00:02:56.920 at every level. You know, I paid a dollar seventy today when I could drive 30 miles

00:03:03.160 south of me to blame Washington and fill it up for the equivalent of 83 cents. You

00:03:10.060 know, it's, it's one thing to ask Canadians to bear a bit more of a burden. It's

00:03:14.620 another thing to rob us entirely and that seems to me to be exactly what they're

00:03:18.920 doing. I don't believe for a moment that, that carbon dioxide that I exhale is

00:03:25.340 causing a problem in the, in the atmosphere. Especially when Canada has the

00:03:30.780 largest boreal forest in the world and, and plants absorb all that CO2 and, and

00:03:37.380 emit oxygen which you and I need to sustain life. This is totally ridiculous to me. 0.87

00:03:43.240 Somewhere along the way the Prime Minister has decided to rebranded attacks on 0.91

00:03:49.200 pollution. Really? Well, CO2 is an odorless colorless gas that's present in the

00:03:57.180 atmosphere. Pollution is made up of particulates. When they become particularly

00:04:02.760 dense then they become a health hazard. How is a carbon tax a tax on pollution? And

00:04:08.640 why they're rebranding all of a sudden? I sure as heck don't understand it and, and

00:04:14.280 I doubt you do either. But yet they're feeding us this dribble in the hopes that

00:04:19.080 we'll continue to happily pay more. Dig deep. Open your wallets to us. We know what

00:04:23.700 we're doing with it. Well, I've got a flash. They don't. They're just going to

00:04:28.440 waste it. How much is the Prime Minister given to all manner of causes in the

00:04:33.420 United Nations and countries all over the, the world that he just isn't spending

00:04:38.460 here? How about First Nations who can't get clean drinking water? Could they use a

00:04:43.200 little bit of government help? What about the homeless people in cities across this

00:04:47.940 country? Could they use a little bit of help? You know, the, giving money to the

00:04:52.620 Weston family who own Loblaws to me is just absolutely ridiculous. I can't even 0.68

00:04:59.400 imagine what they're thinking to, to think that this is a good idea. I, for one, I'm

00:05:05.440 getting very fed up with all of this and I hope that governments, all governments, will

00:05:11.940 understand there is only one taxpayer. I've only got one wallet and the money

00:05:16.940 has to sustain me and, and my family and as well as, as pay taxes. And the more that

00:05:22.640 they try and squeeze out of me in taxes, the angrier I get, and trust me, the angrier

00:05:27.920 that we get as taxpayers and as voters will backfire on, on the Prime Minister and his

00:05:34.060 Liberal Party. For True North, I'm Leo Knight.

Juno News - April 20, 2019

The Trudeau government doubles down on nonsense

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