Juno News - January 28, 2019Trudeau is doubling down on the carbon tax
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Summary
In this episode, I talk about how the Liberal government is throwing everything they have at the carbon tax issue, and why I think it's time for government to get out of its own way. I also talk about the impact of the Supreme Court of Canada's ruling on the Saskatchewan carbon tax and why the government should just leave it to the market.
Transcript
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Hey guys, I want to talk to you about the latest troubling news story that has to do
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Well, quite frankly, all of these news stories that we see from it are quite troubling.
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And what we're seeing at the beginning of this year is a major ramp up from the Liberal
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They're looking forward, I guess, to what the Saskatchewan Court of Appeal says, even
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Cabinet ministers just had a meeting, a couple days meeting, to talk about a whole bunch
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One of the front and center ones, though, really fighting on this carbon tax issue.
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Yet something else came out just the other day.
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Statistics Canada releasing the year-over-year inflation data.
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And I got bad news for regular folks, particularly those people who are just scraping by.
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The price of vegetables, folks, vegetables went up 15%.
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So here we have a regular consumer product that everybody needs to buy to eat, to live.
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And yet at the same time, when this is happening, when there's economic uncertainty, when we're
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not sure what's going on with Alberta, we can't get any pipelines built.
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The government says now more than ever, we need to double down, triple down, throw everything
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It's really getting, quite frankly, cynical that they are just so fixated on this one blunt
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And then all you hear in response when you criticize them about it is they say, well,
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Now, Andrew Scheer says he's going to have a plan.
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Quite frankly, I don't think he should have a plan.
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I think he should just say, well, let's leave it up to the market to create all these innovative
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green products that will herald the green revolution.
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And let's do what we can for government to get out of their way.
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But we don't need some elaborate carbon tax plan.
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And when they say what plan is if there's no plan, excuse me, there's already a federal
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environment ministry, provincial environment ministries, various different offices at different
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They go out and they find people and charge people for violating those different pollution
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Yet they want to risk everything on this carbon tax.
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At a time when your taxes are going up, a lot of people don't know if they're going to
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And the price of vegetables have just gone up by 15%.
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But if you're going up and you're going to have time now, I'm going to make a balance.