Conservatives call for a summer pause on the carbon tax

MPs Melissa Lantsman, Adam van Koeverden and Charlie Angus debate a proposed pause on the carbon tax.
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[@tonycommisso4096]

Unhinged Charlie better take his meds. Retire now

[@bradzimmerman3171]

The “Weasel “ should take some medication too

[@trigremlin]

Adam and Charlie should apologize, that was disgraceful how they behaved.

[@boessheila50]

Oh Yes. They want CPC IDEAS. BECAUSE THEY WANT RE.ELECTION....HAHA. WE KNOW PREDATORS LIKE NDP AND LIBS. R UNETHICAL BASHERS!!

[@deborahkenneally54]

They don’t have the integrity or intelligence to have an educated discussion if someone doesn’t agree with what they say. Adam and Charlie should find a new line of work, preferably before they are voted out!

[@bryceross7321]

Canadians are finished with this liberal/ndp coalition 🤚 conservatives turn now

[@jpichet6999]

I agree. We need a change for a while.

[@wolfiedude121]

There has never been an NDP government, just so you know.

[@AbeySampson-ow8pz]

Charlie you are liar

[@Cnd531]

NDP and liberals you’re time is running out

[@kanuduh5234]

Their boats have already sunk, what we're witnessing is drowning rats.

[@masternoremac3738]

​@kanuduh5234 Were sinking with them...

[@robinmitchell4588]

One fire set by a human - one a tree fell on a power line … don’t be screaming climate

[@kandathilmathew5035]

its all the liberals know how to do .

[@JewelWill1]

However, you seemed to miss that drought in these areas is part of climate change. None of these fires would of been able to burn so out of control if it wasn't so dry, just like last year.

[@DSP_2.0]

​@JewelWill1 yes and drought comes and goes from all regions on the planet. Human activity isn't the cause of natural cycles on this planet.

[@robertlavigne9828]

@@JewelWill1 Just glad you weren't around in the 1930;'s. The droughts lasted years and the temperatures were in the low 40's. It caused the elongation of the Great Depression.

[@Meeko2689]

What is the carbon tax doing to prevent wild fires ?

[@chelseagirl278]

All deflection, Lieberals want more tax to line their pockets. NOTHING ELSE!

[@asmith8947]

Making it unaffordable for arsonists to fill their jerry cans....?

[@evhfan5150]

making matches too expensive buy

[@larrybethune3909]

Reducing toursim.

[@DSP_2.0]

Absolutely nothing, huh!!!!!

[@wadeross6311]

Don’t just blame Trudeau…….EVERY Liberal and EVERY NDP must be held accountable for their radical ideology.

[@constancemackenzie6416]

Arrogance once again reigns supreme in liberal & Charlie Angus. Pride goes before the FALL. & the fall will come!

[@Wl0006]

The liberals have not provided any results on how this carbon tax is helping the climate. Have Trudeau present it live on TV if he understands the math.

[@sandihallgren7509]

It’s time for Charlie to retire.

[@user-xj9vf4xb9p]

He already said he is

[@jordapen]

You can't stop the climate from changing.

[@robl6933]

How much tax will it take to stop the wildfires? They keep bringing up the fires, so when can we expect them to stop?

[@lulo06]

I believe the way the math works is that you increase the tax every time there's a new fire and then when the fire is out you increase the tax again just to make sure the fire can't start again. I've been told 97% of scientist agree with the approach

[@stevegray1523]

Every time there's a fire, all of a sudden, it's a climate change situation. And the solution is to make me pay more taxes, what a senseless joke

[@AtteliaVel]

Last year hottest on record and worst fire season for canada . Is it climate change why it is as bad as it is or not?

[@DjWellDressedMan]

Joke until Climate Changes your life.

[@chadtosh6831]

@@DjWellDressedManjoke if you think carbon tax is gonna stop forest fires from starting.

[@AtteliaVel]

@@chadtosh6831 only conservatives have ever made that claim . It such a dumb point even pp wont make it

[@DjWellDressedMan]

@@chadtosh6831 YOU were never strong in Science or Math

[@kab661]

I’ll worry more than what I do about climate is when these Libs stops flying and starts walking.

[@chrishogan8125]

Libs?? NOBODY is spending more on travel than Poilievre!

[@gravitykillz8914]

@@chrishogan8125 got some facts to back that one up?

[@chrishogan8125]

@@gravitykillz8914 It's all a matter of public record! Conservatives are over $500,000, NDP just over $80,000, and the Libs at $0

[@gravitykillz8914]

@@chrishogan8125 libs spent $0 on travel huh …? nice try. Troll

[@Makeitblue127]

So then explain in detail how a tax will stop forest fires. You claim that 8-10 Canadians get more money back than they pay, then what exactly are you doing with the money?

[@cosmickitty2051]

😹😡

[@sarafollows8589]

I will listen to Melissa Lantsman over Charlie Angus any day. He's creepy.

[@user-ig1kv2qx7z]

She wants to run canada like her dad's pawnshop my naive friend

[@darrylhubbard931]

@@user-ig1kv2qx7z Fearmonger

[@asmith8947]

Melissa's a little fireball.

[@chrishogan8125]

Then YOU are a fool! Charlie Angus has been one of the best politicians that Canada has had in decades, and should have been the leader of the NDP! Lantsman offered platitudes, "We're going to do solar, wind, nuclear, tidal...blah...blah...blah.." Meanwhile her provincial counterparts are doing EVERYTHING THEY CAN to stop green energy solutions! Danielle Smith has banned solar and wind in over 60% of Alberta, and Ford paid HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS in cancelation fees for shutting down wind, and solar farms! Conservatives are a joke, and they WILL LOSE!

[@PoppinWheeliez]

Adam is such a bottom.

[@jefftaylor844]

The carbon tax has been in effect for a number of years. But, forest fires occurred last summer, the summer before, and will occur this summer. Is the tax helping ? Is the ongoing tax preventing fires ?

[@michaelbooth2402]

Hi Charlie Chaplin, yes the PCs have a climate policy and it will ONLY be released once the election is called.

[@chrishogan8125]

Yeah, and we're seeing it in Alberta, and Ontario, where they've cancelled green energy projects, and made it near impossible to start them again! That's some GREAT climate policy eh!?

[@martymurray5011]

No, neither the country nor the planet "are burning"... there are some forest fires in Canada - true and a number of them, maybe 60% are caused by humans (off-road vehicles, camp fires, cigarettes..) Sadly, the carbon tax will not prevent forest fires.

[@AtteliaVel]

You know why cpc mp never make the point you just made ? Because it is intellectual bankrupt . Hotter planet = worst forest fires . That the issue at play here .

[@chelseagirl278]

Lieberals are deluded and have their own "logic"

[@user-eo1vz9lt8g]

when the trees know we have paid the tax they have agreed not to burn, maybe you didn't get the memo

[@MrAk519]

Adam’s a freak

[@barbaramorrow7875]

The lace on his panties must be itching him

[@Dovelly2024-yq4yy]

Angus and liberals are dying to know what the conservatives plans are….why would they tell you their ideas?? Call an election like EVERYONE else wants to happen and then you can see PP plans 😂

[@greghallberg4182]

Awesome 👍 - what gulag am I get to visit?! 😂

[@trigremlin]

I mean, the conservatives have been saying their ideas for some time, there just isn’t a shadow budget for the libs to cry about. These panels are always so backwards, the focus should be on the government.

[@user-cm2py9cs6p]

The arsonists are hard at work.

[@medad71]

Didn't we have fire in 1800 😅

[@robinherter7799]

most of these fires are humans starting them. The ones started in Alberta and BC right now are started by humans whether it be because of stupidity or they were started on purpose to justify their carbon tax!!

[@user-eo1vz9lt8g]

nope

[@DSP_2.0]

​@@user-eo1vz9lt8gAdam Van Keoverden is that you 🤔

[@DSP_2.0]

They only started tracking forest fires from 1919, so they have no idea, but will claim it never happened.

[@Lifegoal2030]

How can over 17 cents a litre of carbon tax on fuel at the pumps not contribute to inflation?

[@renice1648]

Axe the taxes

[@Raidersfan-gn7zo]

TAX THE RICH! WINDFALL PROFITS TAX!!!!!!! GOUGING MFers!!!!!!

[@Raidersfan-gn7zo]

Add a "windfall profits tax", especially on big oil and grocery chains!!!

[@chelseagirl278]

the reason food is expensive is because of the added TAX. the farmers are hurting!!

[@philarchambault5767]

Axe the tax

[@Raidersfan-gn7zo]

@@chelseagirl278 Nope! Its CEO pay! You'll never be rich so why are you making their arguments for them?

[@matti8894]

Axe the tax !

[@idanbjacobs]

If it was up to the NDP we’d all be riding horses

[@ThinkPolisComing4Me]

not all, just the plebs

[@ajimbo12345]

Riding jackasses seated in saddles looking backwards.

[@Makeitblue127]

Complete desperation 😂

[@DarleneRamsay-le6bz]

Charlie Angus, the guy who was so disrespectful of the death of Shiela Anette Lewis. He is disgusting.

[@terrycoles49]

Why is Charlie angus on hear he isn’t running again

[@ajimbo12345]

here

[@derekserfas7250]

The devestating impact with climate change, that is affecting Canadians the most is the carbon tax.

[@lizanderson1669]

And what is the carbon tax doing for Mother Nature lmfao

[@johnsc17]

After seeing how the Argentinian president managed the monetary inflation, I can now see how much we need some right wing power and strategy to fix this country also. Axe the tax please

[@stickjohnny]

Argentina is wholely owned by the IMF to its devastating detriment. Milei has only made the situation worse. Not an example to emulate.

[@Raidersfan-gn7zo]

Right wingers just increase poverty and make corporations and billionaires more powerful! You want pro-labour FDR policy!!!! Not fascism!!!!

[@redness8667]

Liberal NDP clown show has to come to an end folks. It's getting serious now. Time for games is over.

[@clairdenning9062]

Any economist who says paying. An extra 50 cents for fuel doesn’t affect prices should retire!

[@Donnie-sh9md]

water bomber planes, do you know how many we could have bought if the money wasn't on the Ukraine. Next time Pierre debates trudeau on climate change fires, he needs to bring the arsonist and these that aren't being used and why

[@mariogavin]

NDP and the Liberals are done. Thank you to Trudeau. Generations of Canadians will never vote liberal again. 🤞

[@AtteliaVel]

Well NDP could always get power like they have done provincially . You rather have NDP or liberals ?

[@laverneandrew9141]

Vancouverton is in the wrong boat

[@silverdew5747]

300 Liberal experts by not including the experts that are saying no to the carbon tax

[@timothyshackleton9782]

Liberals and NDP are done. The desperation is palpable.

[@sampsonramm6630]

Funny how no one can explain why carbon and in particular carbon dioxide is bad. Carbon dioxide is essential to plant and animal life. IF carbon dioxide IS so bad, why in TF are carbon dioxide generators being sold for use in green houses?? Carbon dioxide IS plant food...

[@jacobb5342]

Well CPC voters are clearly an enlightened bunch

[@lydiavonderahe-guldbech5950]

AND NET ZERO, WOW THAT WOULD MEAN NO PLANTS, NO ANIMALS, NO HUMANS. EVERY LIVING BEING IS PART CARBON

[@stevenjohn1470]

Has anyone checked how many of the 2 billion trees the liberals promised have been planted? Trees eat carbon, taxes eat dollars 💸

[@remydavis1502]

Couple mysogonists speaking over women

[@AtteliaVel]

How we know she is a women?

[@antonizvekov1]

Libs and ndp - NOBODY BELIEVES YOU ANYMORE!!!! Call the election

[@chelseagirl278]

Exactly!

[@mariogavin]

Melissa Lantsman 👏👏👏🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦❤️❤️❤️

[@hideawaysailing9078]

❤❤❤

[@terminator1562]

i spit at my screen everytime i see van koeverden

[@monette7819]

I'd love to see Michelle Ferreira on this show

[@jamesmcneill7113]

How bout I just keep my carbon tax payment and we scrap the whole government!

[@Alvar-hd2tz]

Conservatives must ask Trudeau this simple question: how much money does the government need to eradicate climate change? We need a number!!

[@shebakoby]

economist: the only profession where you can be wrong 100% of the time and still have a job.

[@Gronmin]

That would be the weatherman

[@shebakoby]

@@Gronmin eh, with the weatherman, it's more like being wrong 90 percent of the time and still keeping a job.

[@bonitocarrado8988]

blue wave!

[@joeymallais8292]

Angus can you just retired today and not wait till your due date.

[@ajimbo12345]

His abject hatred for Pierre is unfiltered and he must be so jealous knowing Pierre will be the next PM and Angus is a nobody.

[@gordswaitkewich940]

Politicians need their 4 month summer vacation.

[@user-qq9cj5ck7i]

They need to stop spending our money

[@mariedorion855]

Mr. Adam shut up and retire please.

[@REALDrBob420]

Arson.

[@ciaphaslees4600]

Never let the cpc talk. big men talk over a woman you should be ashamed

[@franckiewicz0831]

A bunch of bureaucrats talking about how much more money we need to give them. Unreal.

[@TimDyck]

Every time the Conservatives present a policy the liberals denounce it and then later adopt those policy’s as their own. So why would they give the liberals and NDP anything? As for Charlie Angus WTF is wrong with him? Over the last year or so he has become completely unhinged. I feel sorry for the voters in his riding

[@fatheadpr]

Its not the conservatives job to come up with the policy its the governments job.....its the conservatives job to privide an alternative when the election happens

[@bonyclifton181]

By calling for a summer pause on the carbon tax you're accepting the carbon tax. The answer is no carbon tax not a different kind of carbon tax.

[@darrinsteven7002]

We CANADIANS PAY Billionss in CARBON TAX and we still have Forest Fires. What is the deal with that?

[@DSP_2.0]

Forest fires are a natural process of managing forests. They also help manage pests, like ticks, that would be otherwise impossible to manage any other way.

[@marshferguson4737]

I wont buy coffe from tims with that stupid lid! And the stupid sraws that make everything taste disgusting! Canadians will not except these new lids

[@queenbigb]

It is arson season. These environmentalists keep ruining our very short summers with all the fires they set

[@davemoore5429]

Thank you Melissa Lantzman.. lets make a change ..we care sick and tired of being lied to... liberals are on their way out.

[@lindaknipe5482]

Quit speaking for Pollievre. You have no right NDP. Shut up

[@bartekmedes8281]

Just like Adam wants his 15 minutes of fame, hes a joke of a politician, pure coward that cant answer a question.

[@DSP_2.0]

What is also interesting, is that the Americans in California would always talk about how there weren't bad forest fires up in Canada and praised Canadians for their forestry management. Then all of a sudden we Canada saw an increase in arsen starting forest fires.

[@user-bz4sy3gj4o]

YOU DON'T CHANGE CLIMATE WITH TAXES.... climate is perfect

[@mmarz2675]

If the goal of the carbon tax is to make resources so expensive that we use them less, why is Angus bitching about oil companies gouging consumers? Shouldnt he be praising them for doing exactly what the carbon tax is intended to do?

[@jerrystawnichy3873]

Take a pause for the cause.

[@darrinsteven7002]

Justin Trudeau and the Liberals could care a less about helping Canadians.

[@nimaakhtarkhavari8766]

OMG!!! THE WORLD IS BURNING!!! THE WORLD IS GONNA END!!! You need to pay more taxes...

[@paullacroix527]

The illLiberals cut the information office budget. Is it too much to ask that you cover that?

[@bubbajay1934]

Drop the writ!!! Let democracy decide! ALL taxes should be temporary, and voted in by TAXPAYERS.

[@user-bz4sy3gj4o]

CARBON TAX IS THEFT

[@tycho2077]

😂😂😂Tears of happiness . For the Conservatives…. 😅😅😅😅😅

[@Ont785]

Maybe for everyone?

[@Raidersfan-gn7zo]

You mean the Rich mans fascist party!!!!?????

[@mariedorion855]

TiM HORTONS is corrupt

[@stevenjohn1470]

Restaurant brands international Inc. owns Tim Hortons. It's not really even canadian anymore. The coffee sucks. I heard McDonald's Cafe owns the old tim hortons coffee recipe now anyway. I personally perfer McCafe coffee

[@Chriskiller27]

I dont mind paying the carbon tax if that tax money is really preventing the forest fires!! Which I don’t know where those carbon tax is going!! 😒😒

[@chadf9536]

We do have a serious case of arson in this country Pierre for PM

[@nimaakhtarkhavari8766]

It's called weather...

[@dmiller5198]

Im still trying to figure out how a creepy Drama teacher got voted in to run a Country..Oh ya almost half of Canada , twice ???????.. How intelligent does that make them , the Canadian in Canada is dwindling !!! Fun fact , more Women in 2015 voted in Canada than ever before ???? That didnt help

[@davidshen6834]

NDP is the worse period, get out of BC please

[@elianodallavecchia2383]

We have some serious problems here in bc with ndp

[@funkopopssmoked]

I got a solution axe the tax no tax will ever fix climate change your just making everyone struggle

[@chelseagirl278]

Exactly, but that is too much common sense for Lieberals!

[@krisius1]

I have never seen a carbon rebate. I don’t know anyone who gets one. It’s a con.

[@jgambler1188]

Melissa got bulldozed over here, hasn't Trudeau just been firing flying around on the tax payers dime talking about his sweet new budget

[@patberlinguette6808]

melis is a joke......

[@jgambler1188]

@@patberlinguette6808 she def didn't come off great here.. Not sure I'd go that far..

[@user-xl1wm3oc7g]

Summer is not enough, end it period.

[@davemoore5429]

CHARLIE SHUT UP...

[@1pridelion]

Make Trudeau and all the liberals walk,

[@steveo4253]

Why isn't anyone controlling the mic's ? When the leader debate comes the only mic that should be on is the person speaking !

[@dianelow3512]

Wonder how these fires start at same time same area anybody know ?

[@darrinsteven7002]

Justin Trudeau is gravely concerned about who is in Charge of the Government of Canada and he will hand pick a Special Rapporteur to look into this matter immediately.

[@user-cm2py9cs6p]

Pierre Poilliver for PM. trudeau NDP party is garbage. Angus should go back to bed and get some more 😴😴😴..

[@user-bz4sy3gj4o]

CARBON TAX MAKES EVERYTHING EXPENSIVE BECAUSE EVERYTHING IS TRANSPORTED... NO COUNTRIES OTHER THAN THE WEST PAY ANY CARBON TAXES, it's insane to pay for something that's beneficial to plants and is greening the earth

[@icanpreptoo6673]

Angus doesnt have a leg to stand on. He is leaving the job when his riding is falling to shambles.

[@lydiavonderahe-guldbech5950]

WE NEED MORE CARBON NOT LESS

[@dylankrank]

His policy is none of your business. He tells, you copy. He has said on numerous his plans but peebrains don't listen.

[@bradmercier8267]

Fires are not "raging" across Canada

[@fluidsystems1554]

How will we pay for all the infrastructure upgrades needed in every jurisdiction...billions needed for sewage treatment plants etc...?