The National Telegraph - Wyatt Claypool - March 22, 2024


Trudeau's Lies on the Carbon Tax are just tiresome


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Justin Trudeau is back with another carbon tax seminar, and this time he's got a guest who doesn't have a clue what he's talking about. Also, why is it so hard to see past the carbon tax?

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00:00:00.000 Guys, at this point, I'm just tired. And I think this is part of Justin Trudeau's ultimate evil
00:00:06.000 plan to make me tired and just give in to his stupid arguments in favor of the carbon tax.
00:00:11.480 I'm not going to, but for some reason, every single week, Justin Trudeau waddles up to a
00:00:16.480 microphone and delivers the same dead talking points trying to justify the existence of the
00:00:22.080 carbon tax, despite all of his contradictory actions on the carbon tax, thinking that at
00:00:26.900 some point, I'm just going to give in and say, okay, I like the carbon tax. Now, Justin, you've
00:00:31.340 said the same thing 50 times in a row, 50 weeks in a row. And now I actually think the carbon tax is
00:00:37.520 quite good. Anyways, we're going to go back to the well once again and join Justin Trudeau in his
00:00:43.100 pro carbon tax seminar that he's put on this week, taking away the price on pollution, or leveling it
00:00:50.320 off where it is, would actually mean less money in the pockets of eight out of 10 Canadians in the
00:00:57.640 jurisdictions where it's imposed, which doesn't make sense. Canadians are squeezed on groceries,
00:01:03.580 they're squeezed on rent, they're squeezed on cost of living. We are putting more money in their
00:01:08.940 pockets four times a year with the Canada carbon rebate. And we're going to continue to do that.
00:01:15.740 Wait, guys, wait, wait, is the carbon tax actually good now? Wait, I just heard him say that for the
00:01:23.220 50th time now, the 51st time. Wait, is the carbon tax good? Like, I don't know who's convinced by this
00:01:28.660 at all. Like, Justin, you paused the carbon tax on heater oil. Why would you do that? You removed the
00:01:35.240 carbon tax on heater oil. Why would you do that if it was supposedly making those people money?
00:01:39.440 I feel trite just saying it. It's such a trite point to even just point out the truth about the
00:01:45.280 carbon tax at this point. And his only defense for the carbon tax at this point is like dangling
00:01:49.800 money in front of people and thinking and saying like, I stole this money from you and I'll give
00:01:54.340 you back part of it if you keep voting for me. And like, nobody's, nobody's convinced. I don't know
00:02:00.960 who in the Liberal Party's comms team needs to be fired who keeps telling him to do this. I'm a
00:02:05.920 conservative. And I'm frustrated on Justin Trudeau's behalf because his comm team sucks,
00:02:11.440 or at least he fired everyone on the comm team who actually knew what they were doing.
00:02:15.540 But I want to jump over now to a different Liberal making a different defense for the carbon tax because
00:02:21.380 I can't get enough of torturing myself and listening to these people constantly run headfirst into a
00:02:27.140 wall. I'm here to talk about young people because... Young people? That's me. This means she's talking to
00:02:33.100 me. As for young people in this country, this isn't about if climate change is a thing or whether
00:02:39.540 or not climate change is making an impact. You think of climate change as a thing would actually
00:02:44.720 kind of play into whether or not people are okay with the carbon tax? Like if, you know, having a gas
00:02:50.320 powered car is not really significantly contributing to the change in the climate, that kind of does
00:02:55.920 matter, but whatever. It's a fact that it is. Last week, it was one of the warmest days on record
00:03:02.080 in Toronto. So for anybody, if Mr. Poliev is ever suggesting, and he does, that climate change isn't
00:03:09.980 a thing, you need only point at that to know that this exists. It's not... Sorry, where did Pierre
00:03:16.180 Poliev say that climate change was not a thing? I don't think any conservative has said that. They'll
00:03:20.000 maybe say that I don't think that, you know, Canada gutting its own economy is going to solve
00:03:24.840 anything. But she needs to pull up a quote for me. Like this clip is already like butchered to hell.
00:03:30.980 It's like they know that like they have to cut out all of her ums and ahs and just nonsense so that
00:03:36.180 they can get to a coherent point here. And it's even not that good.
00:03:39.160 If it is now, and in my Ontario writing, the rebate means $1,124 back. And that is significant.
00:03:49.000 Wow, we stole $1,124 from people and gave it back to them. And it still doesn't make up for
00:03:54.940 the increased cost of living. That money can go a long way. The last thing that I will say
00:04:00.560 is who pays the bill. If we are to defer action on climate change, if we are to sit pat and say,
00:04:07.480 well, it's just fine. Who pays that bill? Young people pay the bill. And we won't let that happen. 0.98
00:04:14.580 We won't let them pay that bill later on. So we're going to force them to pay the bill now
00:04:19.740 through a stupid carbon tax that doesn't actually do anything, which is why Stephen Gilboa's Minister
00:04:25.320 of the Environment Office does not actually track emissions reductions linked to the carbon tax,
00:04:31.140 because it doesn't actually happen. So they aren't tracking it. Even the Parliamentary Budget Office,
00:04:37.740 who like they tend to be pretty neutral, like they like sometimes the PMO can get them to sort of
00:04:42.340 massage something a bit. Even they can't massage this. The carbon tax, according to their own math,
00:04:47.920 is actually costing like the vast majority of people more money than it's putting back into
00:04:52.460 their pocket. Because like the thing is that, yes, if you just take into account gasoline and home
00:04:58.660 heating, for some people, it will be some money back. But when you take into account all of the
00:05:04.700 other shopping people have to do in a week, everything that the carbon tax contributes to price
00:05:08.980 increases there, that means that they're not actually making any money back. They're simply
00:05:13.540 Justin Trudeau. This is basically his plan and it's not working anymore. This is why David Eby is
00:05:17.780 actually now failing in British Columbia, because even people in British Columbia who tend to be
00:05:22.820 warmer to more environmental regulations aren't buying the idea that somehow the carbon tax is saving
00:05:27.920 the planet. The Justin Trudeau's only way of marketing this is by stealing money from your back
00:05:33.220 pocket and then showing you the big chunk of money he is handing you back, pretending like this has been
00:05:38.980 a win for you. Even though if you just check your back pocket, you'll realize you're pretty much
00:05:44.640 down the amount of money he just gave you. Whatever. Next week, Justin Trudeau will be back
00:05:50.460 talking about how pure poly wants to take away the rebate from you and he's making you poorer and he
00:05:55.020 doesn't take climate change seriously and blah, blah, blah. And again, leaving you guys all on this,
00:05:59.880 if you've never heard this before, like if you've never taken an economics class, probably a lot of you
00:06:03.540 have. Gasoline and energy are inelastic goods. It is a good where you could triple, quadruple the
00:06:12.000 price of the carbon tax. And for the most people, like for the vast majority of people, they will not
00:06:18.400 change their driving habits because they have to drive to work. They have to drive to go pick up
00:06:22.540 groceries. They are not going to change their consumption of energy, especially in parts of the
00:06:28.300 country where you could freeze to death by not using the amount of energy that you use, that those
00:06:32.880 people are not going to cut back because they need it. They will cut back on elastic goods that they do
00:06:39.440 not need. So the carbon tax has actually been the biggest attack on the retail space in Canada.
00:06:47.220 Retail items that people don't necessarily need are the first thing people take off their shopping
00:06:51.740 lists when the carbon tax goes up. They're not taking a shot at big oil. They're taking a shot at the
00:06:57.720 person who owns a t-shirt store down the street. Whatever. Okay. That should be it for me today,
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