Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says the Conservative party has been successful at “scapegoating” the carbon price as the reason everything is more expensive.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says the Conservative party has been successful at “scapegoating” the carbon price as the reason everything is more expensive.
I live in a rural region of the Atlantic Provinces. People are chuffed as hell to get a mini-split - not only is it cheaper, it’s also air conditioning. It’s a regular topic of conversation at kids events and grocery stores.
It’s highly likely that people still on oil are in a bad spot. Either they are:
What I’m saying is that this tax benefits them because they receive a cheque to compensate and unless they own a business that needs to burn petrol then they’re receiving more than they’re paying.
It would only be fair that if people are now exempted from the tax, they shouldn’t receive the cheque (just like the people living in provinces that already had a carbon tax or equivalent in place don’t get a cheque from the federal government since they don’t pay the federal tax) and maybe then they would realise that they were complaining about something that actually made them richer!
Not only that, so far every place that has removed their local tax has seen prices go back up as the industry just raised its prices to compensate, easy profit for them because the majority is simply uninformed and believes the tax is to blame even if it doesn’t exist anymore.