further to your as yet undefined (by you) term, 'bribe': just days old now, the PBO's report states that, "only the richest 20% of Canadians will pay more carbon tax than they will get in rebates"... you know, cause that 20% pollutes more given lifestyle choices, disposable income, etc..
are you lobbying for your boy Scheer to drop carbon pricing in favour of those richest 20% of Canadians... to put an end to all those dastardly bribes? Is that what you're suggesting Boges?
I'm not sure how you budget, but getting a $150 gift from JT doesn't change the fact that your gas prices are going up. People will probably spend that money one thing, or save it.
It's a bribe. Hey look over here, we're giving you the money we're taking away back! Then what's the point? No one is actually going to stop driving where they need to go because of this. And if they did the economy would suffer for it.
I'm not saying we need don't need to ween ourselves off carbon.
Boges, you're not saying? Just what are you saying then? As just one of the 'tools in tool chest', carbon pricing sets a price on pollution. The initial setting presumes not all tools are in place and/or meeting their full intent/goals. You emphasized affordability and yet you belittle rebates (and the program proper) by throwing around your "bribe" labeling. Rebates are a management aspect to help (some people more than others) with that affordability aspect you highlighted.
as an aside, you may want to reacquaint yourself, while giving a heads-up to weakSauce Scheer, with just how carbon pricing came about. Not in a Liberal government vacumn as CPC supporters like to project upon; rather, as a part of the broad Pan-Canadian Framework on Clean Growth and Climate Change developed by Federal, Provincial, Territorial government representatives and Indigenous representatives... that itself stemmed from a First Ministers conference and an accompanying Vancouver Declaration - a part of which speaks directly to carbon pricing; specifically:
First Ministers commit to:
- Transition to a low carbon economy by adopting a broad range of domestic measures, including carbon pricing mechanisms, adapted to each province's and territory's specific circumstances, in particular the realities of Canada's Indigenous peoples and Arctic and sub-Arctic regions. The transition also requires that Canada engage internationally;
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but again Boges, why the additional 2-month delay from Scheer in releasing the much touted/anticipated 'climate change plan'... why the apparent need to "re-tool" the Scheer/CPC Climate Change Plan? And will it contain carbon pricing Boges... with, as you say, associated "bribes"?