Western Standard - November 02, 2023


'Do you feel it is fair to continue paying the carbon tax...？'


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2 minutes

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203.37349

Word count

422

Sentence count

20


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The Supreme Court of Canada has ruled that the federal government has the power to set a carbon tax on all types of home heating in Canada, but Prime Minister Justin Trudeau wants to exempt one type of heating oil from the carbon tax.

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00:00:00.000 If you're going to have a federal government asserting that they have to have this power
00:00:03.720 so that everybody is treated equally, and then they don't treat everyone equally,
00:00:07.560 it seems to me that that's something we should go back to the court and ask them whether or not
00:00:10.880 they want to reconsider whether this is an appropriate use of the federal powers.
00:00:15.980 I would rather this have a political solution.
00:00:18.400 I would rather the federal government accept that if this is a painful tax going into winter
00:00:23.320 for Atlantic Canadians, it's a painful tax going into the winter for everyone,
00:00:26.440 and just make sure that he does the right thing and takes the tax off for all types of home heating in every province.
00:00:33.140 Mo acknowledged that what he was doing probably wasn't in keeping with the law.
00:00:39.240 He acknowledged that.
00:00:40.620 I watched his three-minute video, and he said he wouldn't normally feel like he was pressed to do that
00:00:45.240 because we do have a Supreme Court decision that does give the federal government the power to set a federal carbon price.
00:00:51.240 And it's the federal government, I think, who's not living up to the spirit of what they said to do.
00:00:57.220 And I wouldn't ask our private sector operators to be in a position where I'm asking them to be out of compliance with the law.
00:01:03.960 I would just prefer for the federal government to do the right thing.
00:01:06.560 The federal government has to create tax fairness.
00:01:09.020 They have to put a reprieve on the carbon tax on all home heating in all provinces, on all sources of heating.
00:01:16.020 Otherwise, you're going to see these kinds of actions taken by the provinces who can.
00:01:21.120 And we're all Canadian.
00:01:22.900 We're all suffering from the same acceleration in the cost, the same pressures during winter.
00:01:28.740 And so I hope that the prime minister does the right thing.
00:01:31.540 And if he was prepared to give an exemption on one type of home heating oil that benefited one region of the country,
00:01:36.780 he should give it to everyone.
00:01:38.000 With us, an industry to reduce emissions in a different way and transition to different fuels,
00:01:42.140 because it's not the choice of Alberta citizens.
00:01:47.440 I mean, that's the only option they really have is home heating by natural gas.
00:01:51.640 It's just getting increasingly punitive.
00:01:53.500 So I would hope that the prime minister would do the right thing and acknowledge that
00:01:56.560 rather than allow for these pockets of inequality to crop up all over the country.