Did Trudeau make the right choice avoiding a carbon tax meeting? | Power Play with Mike Le Couteur

Front Bench panellists weigh in on whether PM Trudeau made the right choice in avoiding a televised meeting with premiers on the carbon tax.
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[@KandidKanuck]

And the carbon tax has accomplished what exactly?

[@twosandwichesshortofaparty4741]

Higher prices for food and basically everything else.

[@NerdyCanadian96]

Lining politician's pockets

[@892303001]

their end goal, you will own nothing and be happy. Theyre after your property now

[@therrydicule]

​@@twosandwichesshortofaparty4741 False. The effects on inflation of the carbon tax is 0.05%. If you want to see the cause of inflation, it's mostly greed.

[@laars0001]

Raising home heating costs by 30%

[@jds1616]

It is poor forest management and not climate change!!!

[@ferzadhazeri2377]

sooo true

[@va3svd]

Imagine thinking only recent climate change has caused wood to become flammable.

[@ericlaurin1699]

I agree 💯

[@twoalpha09]

Mostly arson

[@AlvinToda-xu2wp]

I disagree.... because of climate change, wildfires are becoming sustainable. Reducing emissions wont stop them from occurring but it makes it less sustainable or less worse. All the dried stuff that is created by drier conditions will be burnt. Replanting burnt forests needs to be included as part of management. As climate zones change, forests need to change as well. That should become part of the management. The worse fires get the worse they become. That's climate change. It can only change by reducing carbon emissions.

[@shakyjake2133]

Alternative title: Did Trudeau act like a yellow bellied coward avoiding a carbon tax meeting? The answer is yes.

[@anthonycyr9657]

Scurried away by his KGB to the secret bat cave.

[@ImProudtobeCanadian]

@anthonycyr9657 That's where he belongs, with the "corona" bats.

[@laars0001]

It was on his sock rearrangement day

[@cleomenes01]

He’s a dictator. Loves the war measures act love forcing the provinces to bend to his ideological whims.

[@autisticfieldmarshall1006]

Justin is a coward, just like his draft-dodging father.

[@ImNotNormAll]

There's a reason he's called the "Coward of the Cottage!"

[@Arkhanno]

Why're you talking about Doug Ford?

[@cleomenes01]

He’s a fascist.

[@antiprogpragmatist859]

@@Arkhannothey’re both cowards

[@chuck7140]

The carbon tax does not help the wild fires

[@laars0001]

Why not? It's supposed to slow down carbon, why isn't it working?

[@buckculler108]

@@laars0001 Are you slow or something?

[@laars0001]

@@buckculler108 🤪😜😴

[@Griff1984]

Stop linking carbon tax to 'wildfire season'. As a BC resident it is so disingenuous.

[@sc00bs63]

no to mention how many fires are human started

[@evanhammond7305]

No kidding

[@user-je6cy3pu3u]

Completely only you can prevent forest fires 🔥 and start the fight fire with fire campaign early

[@Arkhanno]

Warmer climates from human induce climate change (which has been proven as fact) mean drier forests which mean more wildfires overall and more intense wildfires when they occur. The amount of carbon humans emit is directly linked to: wildfires, tornadoes, hurricanes, hail, freezing rain, heatwaves, cold snaps, and so much more.

[@Griff1984]

​@@Arkhanno Their is absolutely no study linking the amount of carbon humans emit to number of wildfires that I have seen. The federal environment minister has also stated that the government does not measure carbon reduction through the carbon tax. Finally most the carbon tax, collected by the BC government, goes into general revenue and not into things like climate adaptation and forest management. Nice try though.

[@MrJabez89]

Justin the coward. He must really not be able to justify the carbon tax if he can’t be bothered to show up.

[@Meeko2689]

How has the carbon tax worked preventing wild fires ?

[@laars0001]

It is supposed to slow down carbon released into the atmosphere, get it? Probably not...🫤

[@jzou1030]

Hypothetically helped😂

[@perryroberts4353]

@@laars0001 We don't care!!!!!

[@bustedford]

@@laars0001so the carbon tax has done nothing to slow down the cash grab called climate change?

[@LakeNipissing]

@@perryroberts4353 Laars fell for it.... hook, line, sinker and boat.

[@karen123]

But the carbon tax isn't working if we still have wildfire seasons! And no one mentions arson.

[@LakeNipissing]

Arson season.

[@user-je6cy3pu3u]

Well that new WHO treaty only covers climate lockdowns so we need climate catastrophe to order evacuation?

[@Daniel-02102]

So the wild fires are caused by me not paying enough carbon tax????? Hmmmmm........😑

[@stevestensby3669]

Trudeau is spineless and couldn't stand up against Poilievre.

[@MOONSHIPETH]

Setup a capital gains tax meeting as well. How do you have a meeting with a person that never can answer a question?

[@chrisjoseph6466]

He chooses to never answer which is actually worse.

[@TV2NITE3479]

Easy, you don't, you vote him out

[@maxinearmstrong9566]

So if I paid more for my gas we would have less wildfires…. Such a ridiculous, simplistic conclusions.

[@ImProudtobeCanadian]

They don't give reasons. Just use the same talking points to rake in more money for their party/lobbyists/beaurcrats/eltitists. Hence bonuses + additional tax payers dollars from the carbon tax.

[@laars0001]

Now you're starting to get how the Carbon Tax works yay

[@ImProudtobeCanadian]

Every time civilians ask (legacy) reporters about where the carbon tax dollars go, the reporters freeze up and don't know what to say... embarrassing and authoritarian.

[@kathylovejoy2569]

Since they have taken a huge amount of money for carbon tax, WHY isn't it being applied to fighting fires, and Building WATER BOMBERS for EVERY PROVINCE!!!! AT Least One Water Bomber per Province. He hasn't even planted a tree with it? Where's all that money going????

[@Arkhanno]

Back to Canadians. It's called the Canada Carbon Rebate and has been going back to Canadians from the provinces that federal carbon tax is collected every quarter on the 15th. If you're in a province that collects federal carbon pricing then look at your April bank statement and you will see a deposit from the Government on the 15th. Provinces that have their own system don't get the rebate.

[@TV2NITE3479]

​@Arkhanno nice try, it's been going to all the shills that either cozied up to the lib party or personal friends of trudummy. Only a fraction of what we pay gets rebated. And don't 4get that he has to give money to his boss Klaus. In other words, wake up and stop drinking the Kool aid

[@yosemitesam-ux5ir]

​@@Arkhannoare you smoking the Justin wacko Tabacco. He's giving a small percentage back and if he's giving it back why collect? Your simplistic approach to reality amazes everyone on u tube. Go back in the basement.

[@k-dude4514]

Trudeau NEVER makes the right decision where you been?

[@MrBobbyBrown2006]

Trudeau a coward? Oh you don't say...

[@jeffpoirier1184]

Some 'leader' lol There's no negotiation with the carbon tax...it's Trudeau's way only. Hope his polls keep decreasing.

[@paulratz4910]

I'm donating my carbon tax rebate to the Conservative Party of Canada so they can use it to clobber the Lieberals and SpendDP in the next election. Thanks Justin

[@ImProudtobeCanadian]

7 / 10 premiers wanted to talk about changing the course of the carbon tax. JT again acts like a prince and tries to use his own authority for his own choice.

[@JessT-vg7ib]

7 out of 10 premiers are losers.

[@vinasel96]

Nobody will talk about forest safety and arsonists. It's all Greta's friends here.

[@ferzadhazeri2377]

sooo true

[@MrPeaceman71]

Look we are done with Trudeau.....nothing is changing!!!!

[@ferzadhazeri2377]

soooo true. thank u

[@warrendowd709]

It’s what a coward does

[@bonbonvegabon]

PP is a coward

[@warrendowd709]

@@bonbonvegabon lol. Lame response. What else from a supporter of an incompetent debutante.

[@EndofDays-7777]

CARBONextortion

[@hingstonia]

Um ehr... I have nice socks. Not going to waste my time with these peasants. Its my money not theirs..... (Thoughts from the clueless pm)

[@carollehince8472]

FJT

[@TripleJDigs]

This is a panel of wackos. Wow

[@kentaylorsympatico]

Where is Vassey

[@matti8894]

Axe the tax !

[@sc00bs63]

100% certainty , he will make the wrong choice.

[@Dstep222]

Yes... Arson season.... what can we do?

[@canadiangirl1204]

WILD FIRE SEASON PROVES THE CARBON TAX DOESNT STOP CLIMATE !!! HAHA, DO THEY THINK TAXS CHANGE TEMPERATURE 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@DL-ds7xp]

Taxes on your income, taxed on things you buy, taxed on things you sell, inflation a hidden tax, taxed when you die

[@maurogreco7692]

This should be an all Canadian vote .... JT works for Canadians not the other Way around!!!

[@rinacherubino1260]

The arson fires you mean??

[@dylankrank]

Jt hasn't done anything smart

[@EndofDays-7777]

Child emperor ran from Pat King .....😂😂😂

[@domenica1728]

Hurry up and come back Vassy Kapelos…she’s a much better host/journalist

[@bubbajay1934]

STOP TAXING OVERTIME!!!

[@theowoytowich9959]

Carbon pricing will not stop wild fires.

[@makeitshine108]

Funny how they refer to it as ‘wildfire season’ Seasons…meaning it happens in a cycle. And has been for years. And also - please look up the percentage of wildfires that are started through arson. Last year we saw a massive spike in wildfires started by arson. Seems a little convenient.

[@EndofDays-7777]

FyJt

[@user-om9dp4qd8n]

Do you really believe that Carbon tax will reduce wildfires????? This is all a high school teacher can think of the solution to wildfires.

[@tonycommisso4096]

Poor forestry management and arson responsible for the forest fires

[@rebeljuice78]

How many wild fires are human caused opposed to natural?

[@stevethibault1890]

Nothing's gonna save a him

[@JessT-vg7ib]

Who in their right mind would negotiate with the enemy?

[@user-be7zh6pe1j]

And that is the problem … that our spineless PM has facilitated an adversarial relationship with practically all the provincial govts

[@JessT-vg7ib]

@@user-be7zh6pe1j Maybe if the premiers hadn't dragged their feet in the mud for decades this wouldn't be necessary.

[@longjohn77]

If you're out to prove your limited intellect you're doing a bang up job!​@JessT-vg7ib

[@curtbiegel6740]

You clowns don't think we have not gone through dry seasons in the past ,climate changes 😂

[@user-be7zh6pe1j]

Let’s go Brandeau

[@Zaddy91]

I can’t wait for the day I can give all my money to the Carbon tax! I love paying tax on air.

[@codyj7532]

The wildfires are a result of poor forest management policies and communities being built in fire zones without regulation

[@kentaylorsympatico]

Where's Vassey?

[@user-eo1vz9lt8g]

she's with me but she says hi

[@christremblay1848]

I can see it coming now. " Wildfire refund" "8 out of 10 forest are saved each summer"

[@krissingleton4292]

Regardless what side you come out on the issue, extreme weather events are not hinging on Canadian climate policy. Mitigation barely gets any attention and its the one thing even remotely within our control.

[@TimHuisman-dz8gx]

Who started them fires???

[@elainewaselick4679]

He’s standing alone because he’s WRONG!

[@JpacB77]

Lol we haven’t seen Singhs brother in weeks. Looks like the scandal hit harder than he thought 😁

[@espritlibre9938]

Yes Stephanie, the carbon tax will have a significant impact on wild fires. Of course....the scientific evidence is just sooooooooooo over-whelming.

[@wayneforrest4281]

Oh cry for Justin he is done, he is always running and hiding.

[@user-xy4uj9ph8j]

AXE THE TAX

[@retireddude3397]

Later in his mandate, Harper too stopped meeting Premiers. It’s almost always all of them ganging up on the PM

[@malcolmhamilton5200]

Make it binding. The nation wants this. It's only the Premiers representing Canadians now.

[@jedrudolph3128]

She talks about how bad it is to have a tax meeting while the province has wildfires without realizing that the wildfires are one of Trudeau's justifications for said tax, meaning that one is entirely relevant to the other, even if it's only a political connection. Also, forest fires have happened every summer for the entire history of planet Earth, are we supposed to stop having meetings in the summer altogether just because they're worse now?

[@florencesheppard4138]

I don't know one person that has received a carbon tax rebate!!

[@Stevi987]

Naw, he stayed away like the coward he is!

[@kellycarter4944]

Right... Increasing carbon taxes have helped the reduce wild fires... What idiotic policy. What would help wild fires is better forest management including allowing the fires to burn in unpopulated areas to reduce the fuel load which is why the wild fires burn much hotter. BTW, even last year being a "bad" wild fire year saw far fewer hectares burned than in the 1930's and earlier.

[@mikedarling905]

i dont think throwing money at wild fires it will put them out. the carbon tax is trash and doing nothing.

[@mathias8627]

Of course he didn't attend, it's an incredibly stupid waste of time and resources but that's the base the cons appeal too

[@salvvilona9078]

Carbon is the backbone of every known biological molecule. Life on earth is based on carbon

[@mikedarling905]

he should have, saying i talked to them in 2017ish, silly. he needs to work with the provinces

[@tomcotter8138]

“All things being equal, the simplest solution tends to be best one” I’m 100% to vote ☑️ Poilievre!!

[@bobhearn7402]

It would have ended up in a yelling match and nothing actually getting done

[@ktodd4883]

The right choice politicaly? Likely yes. The right choice morally? Well then.

[@rancher6820]

Droughts and floods are a natural climate; so tell me how the carbon tax change the weather.

[@dbmuir8683]

Eliran Bismut, Alon Abishoor, Rony Abishoor, Maytal Abishoor, Aviel Fattal attacked American students & and are actively enlisted in the IDF

[@maritimer3027]

Trudeau 🤬😤!

[@jeffpoirier1184]

The risk is still there if you're dealing with climate change wrong.

[@Mike-tb2tk]

One point three billion for what one hundred thousand viewer's ? Bravo

[@BBFCCO733]

He does not defend democracy and it’s a perfect example here. He is an autocratic leader.

[@ericlaurin1699]

Hes not a Leader, hes an autocratic Dictator

[@Myopinion789]

He chose to hide under his blankie at home on his bediewedie sucking on his thumb or something.

[@imprivsoaugustinei1910]

Pr yo

[@alanmaikawa3500]

It's only his waaaay so why bother

[@philipsimmonds1103]

...'" an open transparent government '" [justin trudeau] 2015

[@charlenelohnes4698]

Yes should be able to see as well. Yes he should. Poor baby mouth piece.. its not going to be let go.

[@salvvilona9078]

are humans carbon based our not

[@TimHuisman-dz8gx]

His own brother said he is getting rich off the russia ukrain war

[@TimHuisman-dz8gx]

Bill c 63 I'll probably be thrown in jail for saying that political prisoner

[@bobhearn7402]

Wildfire season has already started.And it's only the middle of mate.We got a whole summer to go through and already b c and I'll northern alberta are burning so don't talk to me about climate change

[@ericlaurin1699]

Funny that its targeting specific locations, its like the virus, it only affect certain area. Fort Nelson, Fort St John, Grande Prairie and Fort McMurray... What a coincidence

[@greghallberg4182]

Why should he subject himself to a bunch of fossil-fool gotcha questions, probably written in advance by sleazy oil company lawyers? It would be a farce. Trying to reason with fraser institute acolytes would as fruitful as arguing with a lump of coal 😂😂😂

[@bustedford]

I agree with you Trudeau is one stunned individual isnt he😂😂

[@JackieBillyTom]

what kind of gotcha questions are you talking about?