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Showing posts with label carbon tax. Show all posts
Showing posts with label carbon tax. Show all posts
Sunday, July 28, 2024
Saturday, June 15, 2024
Canadian Convulsions > Trudeau knew the Carbon Tax would trash the economy but hid the fact and did it anyway
Docs show Trudeau knew carbon tax would hurt economy
Government's own data shows a big hit to the Canadian economy due to carbon tax.
Brian Lilley Published Jun 13, 2024 • Last updated 23 hours ago • 3 minute read
Data from Environment and Climate Change Canada that the Trudeau government kept secret for years details the hit to the Canadian economy.
The data was only released Thursday after its existence was revealed by Parliamentary Budget Officer Yves Giroux.
Giroux was speaking at the House of Commons Finance Committee earlier this month when he revealed that the government had data showing the economic impact of the carbon tax was negative. Liberal MP Ryan Turnbull was pushing Giroux on how he was so certain that his report on the economic impact was accurate given a recently discovered error.
Giroux’s answer was that his work was very similar to what he had seen from the federal government’s own work.
“The government has these numbers on the economic impact of carbon pricing,” Giroux said. “And that’s your government, sir. They have not published anything.”
*Turnbull must have been ducking under his desk by then. Yikes!
The data released Thursday morning says that without the carbon tax, emissions would be 11% higher by 2030. It also shows that the carbon tax will be responsible for a multi-billion hit to Canada’s economy.
The data shows that without the carbon tax, Canada’s GDP would hit $2.68 trillion by 2030, about $25 billion higher than what it will be due to the impact on the carbon tax. The Conservatives say the impact is even worse due to inflation since the report was done in 2017.
“Trudeau has been hiding the fact that the carbon tax will cost Canadians $30.5 billion by 2030. This works out to $1,824 per family in extra annual costs,” the Conservatives said in a statement.
*And considerably more than that in provinces like BC which don't get the carbon tax rebate.
Speaking in the House, Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre said the government has been covering up what they knew to be the truth for years and it had to be pulled out of the government like a rotten tooth.
“Because of our relentless questioning and the pressure that is weighing heavily on Liberal MPs, the government has finally relented and released part of the information,” Poilievre said.
The Trudeau government has been trying to deny or downplay any negative impacts of the carbon tax, or the “price on pollution” as they like to call it. Now their own report shows a significant drop in GCP, meaning we will all be poorer, from this tax.
Of course, that’s the impact on the economy overall but doesn’t reflect your extra costs that you pay at the pump, the grocery store, or for anything shipped by truck, train or boat.
The Liberals will now try to claim that while this economic price can be measured, we can’t know the cost of inaction on climate change.
Why not? Can't we measure the difference in Canada's temperature to see how much of an effect the carbon tax has had? Of course not! Because there is almost nothing we can do in Canada to effectively change our climate to a measureable degree.
Most air masses that cover Canada originate in Asia or the Pacific Ocean. The best thing we can do to affect our climate is to sell LNG to China to replace the hundreds of coal-fed power plants they operate. That would have an almost immediate effect on our temperature and precipitation patterns.
The second best thing we can do is to improve our forestry practices in such a way as to reduce the spread of forest fires and make them easier to fight. This will improve air quality in North America but have little effect on its temperature because it's not really CO2 that is driving the rise in temperature. Historically, the opposite has always been true.
That argument presumes the only action that could be taken was to impose a carbon tax, which drives up costs for average citizens.
First off, a carbon tax isn’t the only option – the Biden administration in Washington hasn’t brought in a carbon tax, neither did the Trump or Obama administrations before him, and they’ve still had success at lowering emissions.
Secondly, Canada accounts for a minuscule amount of global GHGs – erase them all tomorrow and we would cover China’s annual increase and a little bit more.
What this now released data shows is the Trudeau government knew their carbon tax would hurt the Canadian economy. They knew that their plan would make life more expensive and that we would all be worse off due to their plan.
They did it anyway.
Their plan, your pain.
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Friday, March 15, 2024
Canadian Convulsions > "More than half of his (Trudeau's) cabinet are actually Young Global Leaders of the World Economic Forum" Schwab
Canada is a full-on One World Government committer. Justin Trudeau's super-ego probably sees him as replacing Klaus Schwab at the head of that government one day. King of the World!
Former Finance Minister’s Thank-You Letter to WEF
Suggests More Collaboration Than Disclosed
By Noé Chartier, Epoch Times
3/13/2024
Updated:3/13/2024
Close interactions between Canadian cabinet ministers and the World Economic Forum are well-documented, but a newly revealed letter suggests forum staff may have been doing more work with the federal government than previously disclosed.
In an undated letter to a WEF official, former Finance Minister Bill Morneau praised the organization and its collaboration to achieve “common” objectives.
“I would also like to take this opportunity to express my sincere appreciation to the WEF staff, for the support provided to the Government of Canada,” wrote Mr. Morneau in the letter obtained through the access-to-information regime.
Neither the WEF nor the Canadian government typically advertise what support the forum provides. The finance department has not replied to a request for information about the date of the letter and details of how WEF staff helped the government.
The letter was addressed to Philipp Rösler, a former German politician who served as a WEF manager and head of its Centre for Regional Strategies.
The federal government is known to have been involved in at least two WEF policy initiatives: the Known Traveller Digital Identification (KTDI) project and the Agile Nations network.
KTDI was a pilot project between Canada, the Netherlands, and private sector interests to develop a system of digital credentials for airplane travel between countries. Agile Nations is a group of countries working to streamline regulations to usher in the WEF-promoted “Fourth Industrial Revolution” that includes gene editing and artificial intelligence.
KTDI began in 2018, and Canada signed onto Agile Nations in November 2020, a few months after Mr. Morneau resigned during the WeCharity scandal. Both projects were worked on while Mr. Morneau was finance minister from 2015 to 2020.
Since both these projects fell outside of Mr. Morneau’s portfolio as finance minister, it seems to suggest that his letter of appreciation to the WEF was referring to other joint collaborations.
The WEF’s mission statement says it is dedicated to “improving the state of the world.” It gathers leaders in the fields of politics, business, and activism to promote progressive policies on issues like climate change and making capitalism more “inclusive.” As is routine with the organization, it did not respond to requests for comment.
Critics of the WEF, which gathers world elites to shape global policies, often disagree with its progressive agenda and warn about its influence on countries.
“No staff, no ministers, no MPs in my caucus will be involved whatsoever in that organization,” Conservative Party Leader Pierre Poilievre said in January. He added that officials who attend the forum’s annual meeting in Davos are “high flying, high tax, high carbon hypocrites” who travel in private jets while telling average citizens not to “heat their homes or drive their pickup trucks.”
Alberta Premier Danielle Smith has also criticized the WEF, saying in 2022 she finds it “distasteful when billionaires brag about how much control they have over political leaders, as the head of that organization has.”
Ms. Smith was likely referring to comments made by WEF founder and chairman Klaus Schwab in 2017, when he said said he was “very proud” to “penetrate the cabinets” of world governments, including that of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.
Sounds almost like "rape" terminology.
“I know that half of his cabinet or even more than half of his cabinet are actually Young Global Leaders of the World Economic Forum,” Mr. Schwab told an audience at Harvard University.
Davos Links
Mr. Morneau’s letter to the WEF comes from internal Finance Department records and is the only document in the release package that pertains to Mr. Morneau. It consists mostly of praise for the organization.
“As a Steward of Economic Growth and Social Inclusion, I have had the privilege of observing first-hand and benefiting from the WEF’s important contributions to foster public and private collaboration towards developing concrete solutions for strong, broad-based economic growth,” he wrote, adding that WEF analysis of different topics such as “structural reform priorities” was “helpful to develop substantive policy measures.”
He wrote that “as we enter another ambitious year for the WEF, I look forward to a continued fruitful collaboration to pursue our common objective of achieving stronger, sustainable and more inclusive growth.”
Other department records relate to current Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland and her involvement with the WEF. She is a board member of the forum and also an alumnus of the Young Global Leaders program that Mr. Schwab referenced.
Mr. Morneau, who resigned as minister in 2020, is listed on the WEF website as an “agenda contributor“ and a ”digital member.” He was a regular participant at the group’s annual meetings in Davos, Switzerland, while he was in office.
During those years, the Finance Department’s media relations office wasn’t shy about advertising ministerial trips to Davos.
“Canada’s strong presence at the Forum underscores the importance of this meeting for shaping the international agenda and advancing economic opportunities for Canadians,” read a January 2020 press release from the department announcing Mr. Morneau’s trip.
The Finance Department has not returned inquiries in recent years pertaining to Ms. Freeland’s involvement with the WEF, nor has it issued press releases referencing her involvement.
Some have questioned whether Ms. Freeland’s role as deputy prime minister and finance minister as well as a forum board member constitutes a conflict of interest. The Office of the Conflict of Interest and Ethics Commissioner said in its 2022 annual report it received more than 1,000 requests in a two-month period from members of the public to investigate the participation of MPs and ministers in the WEF.
The office said the requests “did not provide sufficient information to warrant an investigation.” Ms. Freeland’s leadership position with the WEF has been declared to the office and has therefore been cleared.
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Tuesday, February 15, 2022
The Great Reset - New Dutch MP grills Rutte on his connection to the Great Reset; Why is Klaus Schwab pushing CRT?
Dutch MP Gideon van Meijeren confronts PM Rutte
on his connections w/ Klaus Schwab
Published January 15, 2022
132,172 Views
Watch the woman behind van Meijeren. she's delightful!
Why Klaus Schwab is pushing Critical Race Theory
By praising CRT, the World Economic Forum is apparently seeking
to aggravate tensions between races
Robert Bridge is an American writer and journalist. He is the author of 'Midnight in the American Empire,' How Corporations and Their Political Servants are Destroying the American Dream.
© Getty Images / RyanJLane
The World Economic Forum, the exclusive talk shop that meets yearly in Davos, is at it again, this time looking to drive a wedge between the races. This begs the question: Why are capitalists so gung-ho about ‘Marxist’ ideology?
Once upon a time, in some mythical ‘golden age’, the only thing common folk had to fear whenever the robber barons met for a weekend of cocktails at some remote resort was that a further deterioration of living standards would quickly ensue. Those happily predictable days are over.
Klaus Schwab and the World Economic Forum (WEF) – the same movers and shakers who informed the planet that by the year 2030 we’ll “own nothing and be happy” – are now singing the praises of ‘Critical Race Theory’ (CRT), a controversial concept that lays blame for global inequalities squarely at the feet of white people.
Betraying a glaring lack of neutrality and objectivity, the short WEF explainer video tilts heavily in favor of the CRT crusaders. For example, when arguing that people of color face racial inequality due to their “historical subordination,” the only evidence given for that sweeping generalization is that “black Americans are imprisoned at five times the rate of white people.”
Can it really be the case that all of those incarcerated black men, locked up alongside millions of whites and Hispanics as well, found themselves behind bars due to the inherent racism of the local police forces? That seems to be a major simplification of a highly complex problem. After all, what happened when the city of Seattle attempted to create a police-free ‘summer of love’ zone during the Black Lives Matter protests? In a matter of days, the very same protesters who had been hurling rocks and bottles at the authorities were suddenly dialing 911, demanding police protection as murders began to occur.
More to the point, however, is this question: How did we come to inherit a situation where a bunch of moneyed elite – unelected and unaccountable to ‘we the people’ – are able to determine our collective fate between sips of champagne and trips down the ski slopes at a mountain resort in Davos, Switzerland? Surely, the ancient Greeks were not imagining downhill skiing and afternoon power lunches when they talked about a fully functioning ‘democracy’.
The answer is that we simply had no choice in the matter. After all, who is going to stop those private jets from airlifting their precious cargo into Switzerland year after year (or to the other elitist confabs, like Bilderberg and Bohemian Grove, which are also completely roped off to the prying public)? Thus, the only viable option left for people is to try and adjust their lives to whatever decisions the global elite thinks is in ‘their’ best interest. So if Davos Man decides one afternoon that teaching Critical Race Theory to schoolchildren is a brilliant idea, then it will be Joe Six-Pack who must contend with the consequences. And there are consequences.
When the unproven ideas of CRT, for example, are mixed up with the non-stop virtue-signaling pageant known as cancel culture, the result is a wicked cocktail that has the potential to spread fear and hate faster than a Panzer tank division. Already, the woke shock troops have convinced millions of intellectually-stunted people that the cornucopia of Western (white) society – classical literature, classical music, mathematics, even Dr. Seuss – are part and parcel of a white hate-scape that is responsible for oppressing minorities. And if anyone doubts the brave new gospel, there is no shortage of enterprising entrepreneurs charging top dollar for white people to sit through a full course meal while being lectured on the inherent evils of their race. All this seems very strange and even sinister when considering that the United States is one of the most racially diverse places in the world, and more so since Joe Biden opened up the US-Mexico border.
So what would be the ultimate reason for people like Klaus Schwab to thrust these half-baked ideas, descended from a gnarled offshoot of communist ideology known as ‘Cultural Marxism’, onto an unsuspecting populace? One possible answer comes down to ‘liability’. After all, it’s not rocket science for the insanely wealthy to protect their lofty positions by aggravating tensions between the races.
It should not be forgotten that we have just experienced, amid the ongoing pandemic, the greatest transfer of wealth (mostly to the wealthy, of course) in recent memory. The World Inequality Report estimated that billionaires collectively own 3.5% of global household wealth, up from around 2% at the start of the pandemic in early 2020. Much of this mammoth wealth accumulation was due to the deliberate destruction of the middle class thanks to lengthy lockdowns that forced thousands of small businesses into bankruptcy. This silent catastrophe made merely rich individuals astronomically wealthy almost overnight. So wealthy, in fact, that the biggest problem now plaguing Amazon founder Jeff Bezos is how to squeeze his superyacht under a Dutch bridge.
Thus, by foisting the ‘problem’ of ‘white supremacy’ into the marketplace of ideas courtesy of a complicit media, the more deserving question involving class strife between rich and poor goes missing in action.
There are other reasons, however, for adopting a ‘divide and conquer’ mentality. In this brave new world we’ve come to inhabit, Klaus Schwab has spoken enthusiastically about a shiny ‘post-human’ place where the world of science merges humans with artificial intelligence to create something truly horrifying known as ‘transhumanism’. Considering the vast moral and physical implications of man attempting to play God, it would be more convenient to the elite if the bulk of humanity were consumed with race riots and food shortages than with the question of if there will even be a human race in several decades.
Is Schwab a good man with merely stupid ideas? I really can’t say, but, back in 2009, I had a chance encounter with him in Moscow during a Valdai Discussion Club meeting where we were both attendees. During a break in the conference, where then-Russian President Dmitry Medvedev was the speaker, I went to a side room to have a coffee and – much to my surprise and slight horror – found myself standing at a small table directly next to the global mastermind himself, Herr Schwab.
At the time, I only knew him as the international powerbroker who gathered around himself a constellation of powerful individuals for the sole purpose – or so I had naively imagined – of accumulating ever more riches for himself and his ilk. So we exchanged casual pleasantries about the weather and his impressions of the Russian capital. I even managed to get his surprisingly bland business card. Today, however, I find myself remembering with a bit of disappointment that brief and all-too polite chat. In light of the many things that have since emerged about Klaus Schwab and Davos – an organization of unelected individuals attempting to radically transform society without an ounce of democratic intervention – I like to imagine how differently our conversation would go today.
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