Trudeau has "tried to bait me" on carbon tax: Newfoundland Premier Furey

The Front Bench panel discusses Newfoundland and Labrador Premier Andrew Furey distancing himself from the federal Liberals' carbon tax.
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[@wadeross6311]

Carbon tax isn’t politics or helping climate change…..it’s radical ideology.

[@Makeitblue127]

It’s a cash grab

[@892303001]

Wealth transfer, just like the last four years.

[@gcc8584]

It’s a much needed tax for a country pickled in debt.

[@potolishis]

​@@gcc8584 from this pm that has spent more money in eight years than every other PM in Canadian history combined?

[@mariemarie6489]

🙌💯

[@aleayawijaya2519]

This IS a sign of things to come, GOODBYE LIBERALS AND NDP!!

[@waynedaub1889]

10 years too late

[@wv5742]

💯agree

[@Abeysampson]

Liberal lost seat in Newfoundland yesterday in by election held by Liberal Cabinet Minster for 20 years.

[@donnarocha4043]

Wow awesome 🇨🇦 ❤

[@floydrideout318]

Sorry Newfoundlanders aren't stupid I meant

[@ThePalash00]

We will vote out Bill Blair from my constituency in the next election. A dirty cop must go.

[@joshdoddadbod]

​@@ThePalash00god I hope so, he is such a pos of a human being.

[@ananke2104]

@@floydrideout318 They were never stupid, they are just very corruptible. For a cheque from the government, they will vote for whoever.

[@Abeysampson]

Liberals are done across the country, do you understand Vassy

[@thelaid-backlad-kj8ey]

7:28 I think she does. That laugh.

[@tomcotter8138]

Politics Makes Strange Bedfellows Let’s vote out the liberals & concubine aka Jagmeet Singh out !!! Conservative Party of Canada🥰

[@ananke2104]

She does not want to understand, she is arrogant and ignorant to the point of pain.

[@andrewtaylor4554]

never underestimate the stupidity of the Canadian voter .... recent history is evidence

[@waynedaub1889]

@@andrewtaylor4554 Yes the voted for a boy

[@anonhuman4178]

DO NOT LET JEGMEET OFF THE HOOK FOR THIS. NONE OF THIS WERE POSSIBLE WITHOUT THE NDP AIDING AND ABETTING.

[@aglantha]

Precisely - Providing the NET benefit (Rebate larger than tax) for 80% of Canadians - cannot go unpunished! "Ax the REBATE!" "Take from the POOR and give to the RICH - the top 20% and the big corporations whose tax sweetens the rebate to Canadians!"

[@canadiangirl1204]

EVERYONE IS TURNING ON TRUDEAU! ITS A BEAUTIFUL THING TO SEE!!! JAGHMEET END THE COALITION NOW!!!!!!!!!!

[@JessT-vg7ib]

how about no...i want my pharmacare

[@robertcoutts926]

He's deaf in that ear.

[@pattheegreat]

Jagmeet is equally, if not more, corrupt

[@canadiangirl1204]

@@pattheegreat 👍

[@canadiansfor2A]

Get a better job ​@@JessT-vg7ib

[@gerarddavis1542]

The liberals & NDP are finished in Canada.

[@frankhardy4969]

Please Have A Bench Full Of Conservatives...So We Can Hear The Truth!

[@nicolebrooker7894]

That’s too funny!

[@brodieobrien-pickering2202]

Get drilling that gas, lets get the country rich again.

[@rosebuza967]

...run run run. Ur gonna be put in prison under that new policy...

[@truthseeker9346]

@@rosebuza967 lol says the NDP

[@bikingD]

Furey is right anytime anyone says anything about Trudeau he then starts bashing and bullying them calling them names. It's in Trudeau's nature if you don't agree with him he acts like a 5 year old stomping his feet having his temper tantrum.

[@kevingreenmeister]

Trudeauing

[@cujo505]

Poilievre for PM!

[@JessT-vg7ib]

PP is a hack

[@deanl6613]

​@@JessT-vg7ibTypical Liberal response...name calling isn't a defense of the bad policies of the Trudeau government. The tax does nothing but drive inflation.

[@Makeitblue127]

@@JessT-vg7ib at this point, go ahead and support the liberals, they’re going to need all the help they can get

[@JessT-vg7ib]

@@Makeitblue127 the liberals have the senate stacked with liberal appointees...these policies are here to stay

[@user-ze3pn7kh2b]

Pierre gives up hope for the future of Canada !Im a senior and life is a hell.

[@tomcotter8138]

Flush it Liberals NDP let it make skid marks on the way out. I’m 100% to vote ☑️ Poilievre!!

[@donnarocha4043]

I will never vote for the liberal, ndp party provincial or federal tax tax tax 😢 🙏 🇨🇦

[@wv5742]

Spend spen spend Canada is broke thanks to liberals/ ndp

[@aglantha]

"tax, tax. tax" - said the premier of Alberta, calling the fully rebated federal carbon tax "inhumane", while jacking up Alberta's provincial gas fuel tax that is NOT rebated at all?

[@Konigkev]

FJT!

[@gorgeousgeorge5173]

We don't want the Carbon Tax, and its insulting when Liberals counter with your better off. Tone deaf idealogues.

[@AC-zt2ky]

Spot on

[@randybegon3191]

Alberta has had a carbon tax for many years but it was paid by the generator and returned to them for reinvestment into green technology this has made Canada a leader in cleaning up emissions , carbon capture and hydrogen this without Albertans being on the hook

[@wolfiedude121]

Well then why not write to your MPPs and tell them to implement and equivalent Cap and Trade system? That would get rid of the federal carbon tax.

[@oilersridersbluejays]

@wolfiedude121 what the hell is a MPP? It’s called a MLA.

[@wolfiedude121]

@@oilersridersbluejays Member of Provincial Parliament. That's how I learned to refer to provincial MPs as. But MPP and MLA are basically interchangable.

[@aldyson3469]

17 days ago liberals increase carbon tax. 17 days later they just don't want to talk about it anymore. It's only been 17 days they shold HAVE to talk about it.

[@glennfranz9929]

GARRY DOES'NT KNOW CARBON TAX IS FRAUD.

[@stevebyra7795]

Having a carbon tax is the exact opposite of taking clinate change seriously

[@JessT-vg7ib]

liar

[@deanl6613]

​@@JessT-vg7ibPrivate enterprise is reducing emissions in the conventional energy sector without the tax....the billions Trudeau rained on battery assembly plants was nothing but a gift to a failing business model.

[@JessT-vg7ib]

@@deanl6613 the amount of manure coming out of your mouth is astounding

[@mandolorion8456]

​@@JessT-vg7ibpay my carbon tax then if your so wealthy and can afford the prices of everything

[@deanl6613]

@@JessT-vg7ib Pathways, Quest ACTL, TIER.....The Fed Carbon tax didn't help any of these projects, yet they sequester 3 million tons of C02 a year. Keep asking questions, I'll happily answer them, but you should probably tone down the insults, it's making you look bad.

[@shanedowney6503]

Justin is not in touch with reality . A millionaire arguing that Canadians need to pay more do try and save the world is delusional

[@steevensproulx3389]

MONEY WILL NOT FIX POLLUTION!!!!!! WHAT IS WRONG WITH THIS GOUVERNMENT

[@oilersridersbluejays]

Lots. I would tell you what’s wrong with these Liberal/NDP idiots but I would be here for hours typing a reply.

[@steevensproulx3389]

@@oilersridersbluejays Ohh i hear ya buddy!!!! I feel the same

[@UnderratedDemocracy]

carbon pricing doesn't actually do anything to help the environment, tech advancements actually do help the environment. so if you think the carbon tax is doing something then you are a part of the problem as to why we haven't met any of our climate goals.

[@AC-zt2ky]

I have been trying to preach the same thing. I’ve written my Liberal MP (who I didn’t vote for) and told him as much

[@1OriginalCooperdude]

And now the corporations are gonna take their investments elsewhere as they have began to already.

[@lydiavonderahe-guldbech5950]

I REALLY WISH THAT EVERYBODY HAD LEARNED IN SCHOOL THAT CLIMATE CHANGE IS TROPICAL TO ICEAGE AND BACK AGAIN WITH ALL KINDS CHANGES IN BETWEEN. COMPLETELY NATURAL. PLEASE FOLKS LEARN ABOUT THIS FROM THE RIGHT SOURCES.

[@lydiavonderahe-guldbech5950]

BY THE WAY, NET ZERO GUESS WHAT WILL HAPPEN. NO PLANTS, NO ANIMALS, NO HUMANS. EVERYTHING IS PART CARBON. WE NEED MORE CARBON NOT LESS.

[@user-cm2py9cs6p]

Pierre Poilievre for A real Prime Minister. Out with the Trudeau Freekland garbage. 🎉

[@richardhunwick5682]

Let this be a lesson, drama teaching is not the same thing as running a country

[@thetruthwillsetyoufree2130]

If you have low standards vote liberal

[@BlueTeamRedTeam]

No standards

[@theevilascotcompany9255]

Hey, I have very low standards, but don't tell me who to vote for, lol.

[@peterbutz642]

Trudeau has lower the standard for being Prime Minister a turnip would have more intelligence

[@thetruthwillsetyoufree2130]

@@theevilascotcompany9255 lol it's a free country

[@JessT-vg7ib]

trudeau gives me wet dreams

[@BrianSmith-oc8vk]

Only a total ideologue believes the only one way to “fight” climate change is to tax what we need to live and work in Canada.

[@carollehince8472]

FJT and the liberals party and NDP their all corrupt

[@zebatov]

Yes Carolle!

[@jabadathehut6400]

Furey turning conservative I love it. Newfoundland is expensive as it is. I live here and I can’t afford literally anything with the low wages. It’s monopolized.

[@PaulBell-nn5lu]

There is no evidence that carbon tax is benefitting the environment. It's a revenue policy not environmental

[@MikeSmith-vo2yt]

It’s not the tax, it’s the amount and who’s in charge of spending it, the mathematical certainty that the money will be squandered.

[@OLDBLOOD01]

Agreed

[@robertlaurie7056]

FJT

[@TheGruntski]

Did Trudeau deliver on your thirty pieces of silver, Vassy?

[@samg8012]

You know what doesn't add up Mr. Liberal lover? The fact that it doesn't matter if a province puts their own carbon pricing in place. Because trudeau mandates the provinces MUST EQUAL the federal price, otherwise the federal carbon tax will be put in place. There is literally NO difference and NO incentive for a province to put anything in place. Unless you are Quebec. Then trudeaulets you do whatever the hell you want.

[@darsharhef]

ALL HAIL, The welfare state .

[@arsmaster]

Carbon policy isn’t climate policy. It’s coercive control.

[@vividvideos6087]

Gas prices going up 14 cents in Ontario tonight. But hey $100 once a quarter covers that

[@lmeirelesxo]

Right!? I paid $80 just on taxes on my home gas bill last month. And he says I’ll get back more than what I pay..HA! What a f-ing joke!

[@canadiangirl1204]

PIERRE POILIEVRE FOR PRIME MINISTER 🌊 🩵 🇨🇦 🍁 👌 😎 🌊 🩵 🇨🇦 🍁 👌 😎 🌊 🩵 🇨🇦 🍁 👌 😎 🌊

[@Makeitblue127]

All the way baby, and for decades

[@schmitkeoriginals]

💯💯💯

[@nicolebrooker7894]

🐂

[@user-vw3ry6rm8k]

Johnny LaRue for City Council

[@jakecuff534]

Axe the tax

[@sheldonbosch7340]

Last time I checked carbon was plant food

[@BlueTeamRedTeam]

Shhh. You’ll anger the zealots

[@wolfiedude121]

You're entirely right, the problem is we are producing too much carbon, and the plants that eat it up are all being burned away in forest fires thus producing more carbon. The earth literally can't keep up with all the carbon being produced.

[@BlueTeamRedTeam]

@@wolfiedude121 that’s not true at ll. Its hilariously false as a matter of fact.

[@wolfiedude121]

@@BlueTeamRedTeam It's hilariously false that carbon is plant food? Or it's hilariously false that Canada is producing more carbon that the plants can keep up with? Or is it hilariously false that the massive wildfire seasons are seriously damaging the plants ability to take in carbon and is actually releasing tonnes of carbon into the air? I mean I'm sure that everything I said is true... but go off I guess

[@user-yn2bu3ut1r]

@@wolfiedude121 Climate change is 100% natural. The world has experienced this only 120000 years ago. The temperatures will keep going up and down outside of our control because of natural activity.

[@user-bz4sy3gj4o]

WARMING PERIODS IN THE PAST WERE PERIODS OF INCREASED FOOD PRODUCTION AND WEALTH

[@ramilmagadia6524]

Climatechanbe is an issue GLOBALLY not just a canadian issue, we are the lowest carbon footprint in the WORLD and yet the carbon tax we pay is way too much that everything is becoming unaffordable.

[@wolfiedude121]

That's not entirely true. Yes we have the lowest total carbon footprint at about 1.5% - 2% but we are also only 0.05% of the total population, so per capita we are one of the top carbon producers in the world.

[@LakeNipissing]

@@wolfiedude121 We are also the COLDEST and LARGEST country on earth implementing such utter nonsense. Heat is a NECESSITY for life, so is transportation.

[@wolfiedude121]

@@LakeNipissing True. But we don't need to have the biggest per capita carbon footprint. It's like common sense doesn't exist for conservatives.

[@jimmyreid1458]

This is a panel of apologists.

[@lambertois11]

In 2015, Justin Trudeau was elected because of his flamboyant dog and pony shows ! But these dog and pony shows are attracting less and less attention because Canadians can now see thought the Justin Trudeau facade !

[@wolfiedude121]

I mean we are entering a fatigue election. It'll have been 10 years of liberal leadership, that's usually when Canadians get tired of a party and want a change (same thing happened to Harper). Both parties are putting on their own dog and pony shows, just so happens in a fatigue election the Conservative dog and pony show gets more interest.

[@aleayawijaya2519]

Well SIr, Canadians cannot make ends meet, so there is your Politics!!!! Not just individual Canadians, small business is also suffering as we are NOT SPENDING!!! Cutting back to bare bones. I cannot afford McDONALDS!!!!

[@davidharrow9025]

14 cent increase tonight. I drove by many gas stations and they were all packed.

[@donnarocha4043]

Little towns north ontario, busy crazy

[@jeffhedrich3551]

Look at these idiots suggesting that provincial govts cut taxes. Are they so dense that they don’t understand that the Fed’s have the power of the purse?

[@garandsgadgets5372]

One More thing It's the Cost of fuel that's causing Inflation!

[@derek89273]

No sympathy for NL, you voted for this.

[@Eggwelder]

Over and over again

[@oilersridersbluejays]

Provincially AND federally.

[@rv4084]

No one more deluded about the way things are than Brian Topp.

[@buckculler108]

Brian Topp is an absolute Moron!

[@Meeksballs]

That's a hard pass on the liberalNDPs completely useless carbon tax!

[@stevegaspar]

The PM of MB also said get rid of the Carbon tax too while removing the provincial gas tax... which will not be permanent...just like AB who had it removed for 15 months and was greatly appreciated

[@oilersridersbluejays]

“Prime Minister of Manitoba”? Lol. He’s a two faced slime ball. He’s only trying to save face to appeal to Conservative voters in Manitoba. He knows he will have a tough time winning in 4 years and he is likely just a Manitoban version of Rachel Notley: a one-term NDP wonder.

[@stevegaspar]

@@oilersridersbluejays Premier which can also be denoted PM. You're definitely not very bright. In fact I'd say you're as sharp as a bag of marbles but that's insulting to the marbles. GTFO

[@malcolmhamilton5200]

Paint the rock blue buys! Do it before the three year maritime carbon tax pause finishes. Otherwise Trudeau and Guilbault will be waiting at the pumps, with even bigger strap ons, ready to ream your constituents. And that's not even touching the pain you'll feel trying to heat your home buys!

[@cptkirkp]

smoke and mirrors - the greatest crime in the history of mankind has been committed.

[@jedanderson8172]

🙄 Right. Worse than all the deaths in WW2. I'm not a fan of the tax, but silly hyperbole doesn't help.

[@deanl6613]

​@@jedanderson8172Third world countries suffer from lack of Healthcare, food, shelter and clean fuel....the resulting deaths dwarf any war. ENERGY....is what's needed in those countries to develop their resources and agriculture to bring them out of poverty. Climate crazies are anti humanity.

[@perrychartrand7389]

This PM needs the same sentence as the Vietnamese who stole her people’s bonds $

[@brianmunro1747]

We have abundance of trees in Canada that will sequester the carbon more than we produce. Carbon tax is only a taxations scheme.

[@user-jd2yj5hw4h]

More politicians need to Speak out on this 'climate' policy...

[@ricklatour2794]

who is the new liberal PR guest

[@potolishis]

When was the last time Canada was spending more money on debt interest than health care?

[@grenvillerich-fv2oy]

From Ontario i agree

[@chriscampbell2670]

2:43 Perhaps if the Liberals took it seriously they would acknowledge our emissions amount to the equivalency of urinating in the ocean in terms of scale.

[@espritlibre9938]

Someone will have to explain to the drama teacher what “sclerotic” means.

[@ewanmcmillan2324]

$2.02/litre now in Parksville BC (that’s regular, not premium). When you elect clowns, you get a circus 🤡

[@oilersridersbluejays]

And in BC, you have both plenty of federal and provincially elected clowns.

[@forklaundry]

Liberal inclination towards Party Above All Else is why they need to lose catastrophically

[@OLDBLOOD01]

As much as i love having my children and grandkids around, its not normal for them all to move back home.

[@m.s1356]

Where's the carbon tax money we were supposed to get on April 15?

[@hexxlaxx2992]

I didn't get 1penny

[@derek89273]

Depends on what province you live in. It’s out though.

[@kennordsfan1494]

@@derek89273I didn’t get it but I filed my taxes late now I wont get my 165 rebate till the next bribing take. Because Trudeau wanted a win for the budget announcement the cut off date was march 15th for anyone’s taxes that had been processed.

[@mandolorion8456]

Next year or the year after that or never you might have made too much money or not enough

[@joycegielfeldt806]

The Liberals will say it's in the mail😮

[@Buckshot99]

Canada needs an election now, like this spring. We need to go to the GG or a massive national wide strike.

[@brianpetersen1624]

He understands it, he just doesn't care about Canadians because he's not suffering.

[@philipwilliams6291]

Why should the province give up revenue for the federal government to take more tax?

[@lotterymax6690]

Yup

[@cmpaintball131]

Its like the liberals expect them to say something and everyone cheer's like they do in north korea

[@donnarussell4217]

Mr. Flurry. Stay strong.

[@DR-nw7xn]

In North Bay, ON I just paid $1.88 per litre for gas. My Suzuki Grand Vitara SUV is now $114 dollars for a tank of regular gas. I pay that every week to get to work.

[@ewanmcmillan2324]

$2.02/litre in Parksville BC

[@DR-nw7xn]

@@ewanmcmillan2324 How is this sustainable for anyone unless you are wealthy? We are going towards Feudalism in Canada.

[@deanl6613]

Now imagine you're a farmer looking out at your fields wondering how you're going to put the seed in the ground and harvest a crop. The Liberals are putting our food at risk...that's not hyperbolic speech, it's the reality.

[@timothyj1966]

TRUCK FRUDEAU!

[@rosebuza967]

Cute

[@brettparnell8254]

Did Brian Topp buy a Liberal Party membership? Oh wait, the whole NDP did.

[@FoxTrotRR]

Libs would eat their young

[@Marshal_Dunnik]

He's clearly fureyous

[@thegumpfiles778]

Enough of this Climate posturing. It has run its course . The circus has run Its course except no one told the clowns .

[@joycegielfeldt806]

FYI I don't know anyone that has received even a dime back😮

[@vinceferraccioli4661]

What are they doing with the money to help lower carbon

[@letfreedomreignhonk324]

Taxes dont change the weather.

[@BronsonWally]

Hey bra's keep voting Liberal or NDP and get what you vote for !!

[@mikeroberts308]

Well Trudeau is a master baiter.

[@toddoliver5679]

If Jesus himself were running for liberal party here in Newfoundland I’d vote for the other guy. FJT

[@bradenahmet343]

U can play carbon politics when your 24% and 17% in the polls (liberal / NDP). Maybe you should wake up and smell the coffee

[@user-wd3bm1fi2l]

Trudeau! The master baiter!

[@DickCheneyXX]

Acting on climate change is a huge waste of time.

[@user-ni9hx3ms9g]

"Wtf" Trudeau..lol

[@Richiesrant]

Furey seems very professional. He sounds like a conservative! He should cross the floor and come over to the side of common sense. Brian Topp has no clue how carbon tax works.

[@rosebuza967]

100p right. Furey is intensely professional as a premier and a medical doctor. Isnt it pitiful that such a leader and citizen has to deal with the trudeau clown. At least for another short while.

[@Jim-jg3xq]

A TAX IS A TAX IS A TAX!

[@neecynew58]

Carbon pricing is a Bad thing!!

[@Flora7-Lan]

More than 60 jurisdictions implementing carbon pricing initiatives around the world, Canada emissions drop 6.4 %from 2019 to 2022.

[@richardbrennan569]

Vote against it as a leader then

[@Kala12326]

We don’t have a prime minister anymore. We have a king.

[@rosebuza967]

We have an anti-christ

[@korky7674]

He’s a master baiter..

[@rejeanbarrette3996]

I have a deal for Trudeau and the 2 other STOOGES: CANCEL ALL CARBON AND OTHER SCAMMY TAXES AND THEY GET TO KEEP THEIR REBATES AND DO WHATEVER THEY WANT TO DO WITH THEM .

[@joycegielfeldt806]

Why collect a carbon tax if your giving back more than you receive? They say 80% get more back than they paid out but that just cancels out what the other 20% paid

[@gord1420]

You’re forgetting about close to half a billion collected in GST on the carbon tax annually.

[@rosebuza967]

You do or dont realize that jussie has no math skills. None at all..!

[@lydiavonderahe-guldbech5950]

COULD IT BE TO MAKE THE GOVERNMENT MUCH BIGGER???

[@iosipescuu]

one of the few Presenters on our Networks that is nuanced in her questions and is remarkable at her job.

[@Myopinion789]

If we all made $250,000 a year, we wouldn’t give a crap either 🤪👍🏻

[@Eggwelder]

If we all made $250,000 a year, the carbon tax and all other taxes would directly reflect that

[@Myopinion789]

@@Eggwelder reflect what? Carbon taxes are set. It isn’t a percentage of your wages, it’s based on carbon emissions supposedly. But it is applied to our food and products several times.

[@cindymay4606]

Wonder what else Trudeau threatens the premiers on. What a creep

[@vcrunkgyal]

Wow ....

[@valeriegabriel4456]

Mother nature doesn't deal with currency