Justin Trudeau, who likes to pose as an environmental expert, has an interesting method of dealing with questions about the carbon tax he champions and exactly what gains it has given Canadians regarding greenhouse gas emissions: he refuses to answer the question, as do members of his government.
Recently that dismissive posture was displayed when Catherine McKenna, Minister of Environment and Climate Change, refused to answer a question from Robert Sopuck of the Conservative Party.
Sopuck asked, “I have a very specific question regarding the $50 carbon tax: How much will Canada’s emissions — and I want a number here — how much will Canada’s emissions be reduced under a $50 a ton carbon tax?”
McKenna completely evaded the question, saying, “As I said, it’s important to understand that putting a price on pollution is part of our broader climate plan. We believe in numbers, so we spend a lot of time modeling; we also worked closely with provinces and territories. …”
Sopuck interrupted, “What is the number? What is the number?” but McKenna kept talking over him and refused to answer the question, as seen below:
Roughly a week later, Trudeau also evaded the question, as he was asked if he could tell the House of Commons exactly how much his $50 per ton carbon tax would reduce greenhouse emissions. Trudeau resorted to platitudes and never answered the question.
Video of that evasion below:
As Brian Lilley pointed out:
The Trudeau carbon tax plan starts at $10 a tonne and moves to $50 a tonne by 2022. According to several reports, Canada would need a much higher carbon tax to achieve the reductions this government has promised. An Environment Canada report from December 2015 said the price on carbon would need to be $300 a tonne to meet targets. A report issued by a pair of environmental economists last year suggest a price of between $150 and $220 a tonne.
Either way, those a prices far higher than the $50 a tonne Trudeau is selling. If we need the price to be that high in order to meet targets then the research likely suggests that a $50 a tonne carbon tax won’t have the desired effect that Trudeau is promising. You wouldn’t want that getting out now would you? They also are likely afraid to be discussing the need for an increased carbon tax before the next election. In October 2019, the price will still be so low that it won’t be too painful but what would the public say if they knew that Trudeau was going to hike the tax to $300?
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Even with the exchange rate favouring USD it makes sense for a very large number of Canadians to drive across the border to get gas .
You know help Canada achieve it’s GHG goals .
The next step is to live in the USA or elsewhere for 6 months and really reduce your cost of living .
Canada business taxes are excessive and uncompetitive , the carbon tax will make energy uncompetitive (already is in BC ) but at least Mr . Dress- up assures citizens that budgets balance themselves .
Guess that’s what happens when you spend most of your life in tax payer funded mansions . Yep those credit cards just pay themselves off and oh by the way the planet has a fever too .
Dwieland you call conservatives Beleive GHG Fiction the real fiction comes fro Al Bore and leonardo DiCaprio Gores last fake film Bombed big time and his poem is totaly idiotic You remind me of Rakooi
Who or what is Rakooi?
Spurwing,”Conservative” politicians in Canada are playing both sides of the game. They want to get elected, they need votes, including global warming believers. If elected, they’ll need revenue. Canada has drawn international attention for its indebtedness. We’ll have to hope that the Conservatives win and that they’re the best of a bad lot.
Mr . Dress-up hasn’t a f ing clue . He doesn’t want anything on record because being part of the largest con-job in history is going to bit some of these stupid politicians in the ass .
Ten years from now the next great apology will be for the cluster f
foisted on citizens by tax thirsty politicians using the earth has a fever to shake down people . When did Liberals and the NDP
conclude that wiping out the middle class was a winning strategy ?
We have the super rich , the politicians and the serfs . Taint going to last . Trudeau will have his big walk in the snow and take his fat pension to some tropical island just before the pitch forks storm the parliament buildings .
The global warming con -game and resulting fuel poverty deaths
will lead directly back to politicians and science fiction climate
soothsayers .
The opposition should be jacking up the Liberals [McKenna] for erroneously calling CO2 pollution. It is plant food.
A carbon tax is inflationary as the costs will be passed on to the public.
The whole taxing of CO2 is based on fraudulent claims, and should not be permitted.
I completely agree with Al, although I’m aware that the Conservatives seem to mostly believe the GHG fiction too. I haven’t heard any defense of CO2.
Trudeau only thinks he is a expert just like Al Bore and Leonardo DiCaprio but in reality he don’t know a darn thing about what he is yammering about