One thing we are repeatedly told is that climate change is a “global issue.”
That’s why imposing a carbon tax on Canadians is such a foolish idea.
It’s amazing how so many who push the carbon tax and other restrictions on Canada’s energy sector fail to recognize the global nature of this issue.
By imposing a carbon tax on Canada – a country that makes up a tiny fraction of global emissions and already has very high environmental standards – there isn’t any improvement to the global climate.
Instead, there is a redistribution of wealth away from Canada and towards countries like Saudi Arabia and Russia.
In fact, they are among the biggest winners of the Supreme Court’s 6-3 decision.
Think about it from their perspective.
They have far lower labor standards than Canada and far lower environmental standards.
They are competitors in the global energy market.
So, for them to watch as Canada imposes a carbon tax on our energy sector, their energy becomes more competitive and this enables them to gain wealth and create more jobs.
In effect, the carbon tax makes Canadians poorer while enriching foreign energy-producing nations.
The federal government is helping those foreign countries at the expense of Canadian jobs.
And again, this does nothing to help the environment, as emission-producing economic activity will shift towards those countries that produce more emissions than we do.
This all makes the celebrations we are seeing from the Trudeau government, the media, and activists on the left (but I repeat myself) quite disappointing.
This really isn’t a win for Canada, it’s a loss. We have hurt ourselves.
Now, celebration in Saudi Arabia and Russia would make sense, since they are the big winners of this.
What now remains to be seen is if Canada will continue to go down the path of virtue-signaling that hurts our own interests, or whether we will really see that ‘solving’ a global issue by damaging our own country is an absurd thing to do.
Canada is a nation full of good people who want to make our country better, and want Canada to play a constructive role in the world.
And that can be best achieved by Canada being as strong as possible, rather than making decisions that benefit our competitors at our own expense.
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Canada need to totaly replace this Pinhead with someone that has no connections to the Globalists
I wish we could, but even the Conservative leader seems unaware of how great the danger is. I’m disgusted with the pussyfooting around ‘liberal’ sensibilities.
“Canada is a nation full of good people who want to make our country better, and want Canada to play a constructive role in the world.”
No, Canada is a nation full of useful idiots who are making comrades Putin and Xi very happy.
Probably the dumbest nation on Earth.
Yes.
We do have an overabundance of useful idiots, but we’re not full yet.
Carbon tax is a tax on the workers to create a socialist world where everyone but the rich will be on the same living standards and world governments are up to their
necks in it including the Australian gov . The governments do not work for us but their masters in the UN
“One thing we are repeatedly told is that climate change is a “global issue.” That’s why imposing a carbon tax on Canadians is such a foolish idea. It’s amazing how so many who push the carbon tax and other restrictions on Canada’s energy sector fail to recognize the global nature of this issue”. Spencer Fernando”
Brilliantly stated by Spencer Fernando.
Global warming is a Global issue related only to Global emissions and the only solution is a Globally coordinated reduction of global fossil fuel emissions.
This is why the UN was asked to take charge of that task. That they have failed means only that our climate action plan has failed. There is no opportunity here for climate heroism by nation states. It’s global or nothing.
The so called Paris Accord and its Ministerial Summits aren’t going to do it.
https://tambonthongchai.com/2021/03/29/a-climate-summit/
https://tambonthongchai.com/2020/05/22/climate-catch22/
https://tambonthongchai.com/2021/02/23/renewable-energy-statistics/
The idea of climate action was to get rid of global fossil fuel emissions by switching to renewables before global warming pushes global mean surface temperature (GMST) to 1.5C above pre industrial at which point the critical GMST will unleash natural feedback warming beyond human control.
That plan has failed.
We must now prepare for a rational response to that natural feedback out of control warming.
Here is a suggestion.
https://tambonthongchai.com/2021/03/25/climate-fearology-vs-geoengineering/
You’re not seriously recommending geo-engineering, are you? That’s the most hare-brained idea Gates has proposed. Dimming the sunlight would not only damage plant growth but also reduce the output of the vaunted solar ‘farms’. That’s in addition to the many other harms we would likely discover.
Good point and well said. Thanks.
Yes now that we have polluted our planet lets move out into the atmosphere and continue polluting. Gates is an idiot to even make such a suggestion, stick to Microsoft where someone might even listen to you. Put your money where your mouth is and clean up the cesspools in the ocean. Do something good without expecting something in return.