A carbon tax vote on the carbon tax is coming up on Monday, and the Tories have a chance to take it back off the table or extend it for another three years. Will they join the Tories or will they oppose it?
00:01:26.000And I just want to thank so many people who have come forward and who are always there to complement the station and what we're doing.
00:01:35.120And we're going to continue to do that.
00:01:36.940We've got a lot of material to go through today.
00:01:38.840I think this is important because, as you know, there's going to be a vote on extending or actually axing the carbon tax.
00:01:48.780You know, Justin Trudeau, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, initiated what he called a pause.
00:01:54.240A three-year pause, but only on home heating oil, which largely affects the Maritimes, Atlantic Canada, 95%.
00:02:05.200And it was really put in place to appease all of those liberal MPs from that part of the country who are afraid of losing their seats because their constituents are saying,
00:02:15.660we can't survive anymore with the carbon tax, eating so much of our paychecks away.
00:02:21.880So let's watch what Conservative leader Pierre Paliyev is doing here.
00:02:31.120The Prime Minister paused the pain of the carbon tax for only some people.
00:02:39.100The Liberal Rural Affairs Minister said, well, other people should have elected Liberal MPs if they wanted to be able to afford heating their home or feeding their kids.
00:02:47.900The Atlantic Caucus was vocal with what they've heard from their constituents.
00:02:52.340And perhaps they need to elect more Liberals on the prairies so that we can have that conversation as well.
00:02:57.120The Prime Minister has not denounced that viewpoint.
00:02:59.120In fact, he's doubling down on punishing people elsewhere.
00:03:03.620But Liberal MPs in Sudbury, Thunder Bay, North Bay, Sault Ste. Marie, they have starving constituents who are worried about the heat going out as well.
00:03:12.740Will they have a free vote on my motion to keep the heat on and take the tax off for everyone this Monday?
00:03:21.000Okay, so there will be a vote on Monday.
00:03:25.120It's not clear at all whether it's going to be free for the Liberals.
00:03:30.860It's going to be, we know that the Conservatives and the NDP are going to be supporting the axe, the tax on this.
00:03:41.020Which we were very surprised the NDP moved on this.
00:07:40.820And of course, but it's all unraveling because he's trying to suggest he's just doing this so people in Atlantic Canada and across Canada can use less home heating oil.
00:08:26.960And then, of course, people say, well, we're not going to give you the revenue from your carbon tax.
00:08:33.860Or we want to axe the tax entirely because it's not making any sense.
00:08:39.320If it's good to put it on pause for three years, why isn't it better to just cancel it?
00:08:45.280Because obviously, if you're that concerned about greenhouse gas emissions and you think this is going to reduce Canada's carbon footprint because we're headed for some catastrophic climate change disaster in the next five to ten years,
00:09:00.420obviously you don't believe that because you put a three-year pause on this.
00:09:03.980So you really don't believe your own propaganda.
00:09:07.200But here's Trudeau originally announcing this three-year pause.
00:09:13.040Today, we are announcing a three-year pause on the federal pollution price on heating oil.
00:09:21.220Piloting in the Atlantic, we're working with provinces to install a free heat pump for people who are making at or below median household income.
00:09:44.000It's the taxpayers pay for it regardless.
00:09:47.100But OK, so the people who are going to get their free heat pump, they have to be living below the median income, which is basically the poverty line.
00:09:55.360And people who are making less than the median income, which is about $30,000 a year per household, not individual per household, probably aren't homeowners and probably won't be looking for a heat pump because they don't have a home to use it in.
00:10:10.320And they won't be using it in their rented apartment.
00:10:14.120And the heat pumps are a bit of a cruel joke.
00:10:16.480In fact, they're a massive cruel joke because they don't work in temperatures below but minus 15 degrees Celsius, zero degrees Fahrenheit.
00:10:28.300And most of Canada has to endure temperatures well below the minus 15 degrees Celsius mark throughout much of the winter, certainly January and February.
00:10:40.940Anyone who lives in Canada has lived anywhere except Vancouver knows that.
00:11:01.060Whether or not you shut off the power, tell people they can't use fossil fuels, or you tell them to use heat pumps, which, by the way, require electricity to operate so they're not carbon neutral.
00:11:13.100Well, the object here for the liberal government is that people just freeze in the name of climate change fighting, in the name of fighting the good fight, in the name of ideology.
00:11:47.180And he's advertising that these heat pumps don't work, that there's no way this is going to work.
00:11:53.880And it's just, as I said, it's a domino effect.
00:11:59.680Once Trudeau admitted the thing is a whole political sham, it's a farce.
00:12:04.740He really doesn't think that there is any catastrophe coming because of climate change, because he's allowed a three-year pause for purely political reasons.
00:12:15.420People start to say, hey, what about me?
00:12:35.380And what is the Premier of Alberta, Danielle Smith, saying?
00:12:39.920We're going to have a federal government asserting that they have to have this power so everybody is treated equally.
00:12:45.940And then they don't treat everyone equally.
00:12:47.520It seems to me that that's something we should go back to the court and ask them whether or not they want to reconsider whether this is an appropriate use of the federal powers.
00:12:55.860I would rather this have a political solution.
00:12:57.780I would rather the federal government accept that if this is a painful tax going into winter for Atlantic Canadians, it's a painful tax going into the winter for everyone.
00:13:06.940And just make sure that he does the right thing and takes the tax off for all types of home heating in every province.
00:13:12.020So Alberta is upset, rightfully so, because they're being told they can't use any, they can't basically use fossil fuels and they don't have hydroelectricity because they don't have the same sources of water as Quebec and Ontario.
00:13:44.340Just push a little further westward in Canada to BC.
00:13:48.520If in fact we are going to be the next pilot site.
00:13:51.580The opposition BC United, skeptical about the federal government's turn here and the promise to give away free heat pumps, saying it's relief now the British Columbians need.
00:14:02.840I have met with trades people, with seniors, with others that are really struggling right now just to get food on their table.
00:15:02.640And, of course, we get the response from the deputy prime minister there, Chrystia Freeland, who says, no, no, no, we're going to stick to it.
00:16:10.520I don't think it's going to answer the question as to whether or not his MPs would have a free vote, which begs the question whether his NDP MPs will get a free vote.
00:16:20.140This Saskatchewan NDP has just voted to endorse my motion to give equal tax-free heat for all Canadians.
00:16:29.800That is the position of the NDP in B.C., Manitoba, and Alberta as well.
00:16:34.780Now the question is whether the NDP will vote against its cash-strapped constituents and in favor of the prime minister.
00:16:41.680So can the PM tell us, is this vote part of the coalition agreement, or does the NDP have the freedom to vote for their constituents?
00:16:51.080Well, as we'll hear in a minute, clearly there was no backroom deal going on here between the liberals and the NDP, like there usually is.
00:17:03.580Because the NDP announced, and we'll hear in a minute, that they will be supporting the conservative motion.
00:17:10.320Now, it's not clear at this time whether this is going to be a whipped or a free vote from any of the parties, but it's also clear that the liberal NDP alliance has completely collapsed over this issue.
00:17:26.360And it's probably the sign of things to come, as the NDP realizes it cannot continue to survive as an independent party when it's so tied to the Trudeau government and its failures.
00:17:40.320It's catastrophic failures, one after another.
00:17:44.060So here's the NDP House Leader, Peter Julian, explaining what the NDP position is.
00:17:50.980This is clearly not a confidence motion, but it is clearly an indication to the government that what they need to do is put in supports that help people right across the country.
00:18:01.320The reality is we have people who are struggling to make ends meet, to heat their homes over the course of the winter.
00:18:07.320And the panic action of last week really needs to be adjusted so that there is supports that go to people right across the country.
00:18:17.280Aha. So we have Peter Julian essentially saying that they're going to break ranks with the liberals on this.
00:18:29.220Now, this is very interesting because this doesn't happen very often.
00:18:32.340Now, there's a lot of people out there saying that this is going to mean the defeat of the liberal government.
00:18:41.280You know, you see it all the time. It's over. It's over. It's over for Justin Trudeau.
00:18:47.760He could well survive this vote. Even if he loses the vote, it's not going to be a confidence measure, confidence vote, as I've said.
00:18:55.960So it's not over in any event, what happens here.
00:19:01.600It is highly indicative, though, of the fragile future of this liberal NDP coalition, this fragile coalition, this unofficial alliance between these two parties.
00:19:13.920It's not exactly a coalition government, but it acts as one.
00:19:18.880And so it gives Jagmat Singh the opportunity to pretend he's really not in a coalition government with the liberals.
00:19:25.860He's really not propping them up at every turn.
00:19:29.120He's really still an opposition leader who just happens to be in this sort of de facto alliance with the liberals and Justin Trudeau.
00:19:36.740So this is going to have to end very, very soon.
00:19:39.860This is not working for the NDP anymore.
00:19:42.040So let's have a look at the seat countdown here.
00:24:44.580These are great times to be a political observer.
00:24:47.620But they might just give you a hint of optimism after so many things to feel depressed, overwhelmed about because of the catastrophically bad policies of Justin Trudeau
00:25:02.740and of how he has not led this country in the right direction for a long time.
00:25:07.660And it's not just that he's not worth the cost, as the conservatives like to say, very inane talking point, stupid election slogan.
00:25:20.580He's destroying the country as you know it in many, many ways.
00:25:25.600So I encourage you to watch on Monday.
00:25:28.240We'll be back Monday to discuss the results of this vote.
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00:26:33.840And we have to beat Trudeau's censorship.
00:26:36.640That's one of the primary reasons I'm fighting on this station is to stop the censorship that Justin Trudeau is promulgating in this country.
00:26:45.640He's done it with two bills and there's a third one on the way that's even more onerous and more dangerous than the last two.
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00:27:03.720And it's going to wreak havoc against independent journalism and new media.
00:27:12.020And for that matter, legacy media as well.
00:27:15.240And they're not even aware of how bad this legislation is and how imminent it is.
00:27:24.400I will be back again on Monday to discuss the results of the acts, the tax vote in the House of Commons, and to tell you what it means for you.