What is the carbon tax costing Canadians? | Power & Politics

[@ginor8416]

The carbon tax is the most effective way to throw Justin out of office

[@frankchen1668]

Unfortunately, it's still years away.🥲

[@Sam19509]

He won three consecutive elections on it. What is jokes is Poilievre thinks he can deceive Canadians that Trudeau’s low poll #s are because of the carbon tax but they are because of global inflation and the fastest cycle of interest rate hikes in Canadian history. Trudeau’s poll #s will naturally improve as inflation falls and BOC starts cutting rates but Poilievre will still be a climate change denier.

[@ginor8416]

The no confidence vote failed so patience is the order of the day

[@movingtocalgary01]

@@ginor8416 How much jobs Canada 🇨🇦 lost due to Carbon tax & went to China 🇨🇳, India 🇮🇳, Mexico 🇲🇽 or elsewhere in the world 🌎 🌍

[@trtinda11]

so it has been a year, whats the reduction of carbon due to the taxes collected? ask that question.

[@jason8679]

They do. Trudeau always ends up talking about Ukraine by the end of it.

[@rubytimms3932]

They don’t know because they don’t track it! Certainly suggests it’s just the money they’re interested in.

[@john15008]

Thanks for showcasing how little you know. We’ve had carbon pricing since 2019. BC, Ontario, Alberta and Quebec had it even before that except Ontario had a one-year break in 2018.

[@tedpoplawski4325]

@@john15008Canada contributes 1.6% of the WORLDS GHG emissions…the carbon tax is nothing but a useless cash grab.

[@jason8679]

@@john15008 don’t put people down for asking legit questions. You’re schooling him on when it was enacted and literally ignored the question, how much emission reduction from the carbon tax? Nobody can or will answer that, making this all about the money. Yet you argue about when the tax started? 🤦‍♂️

[@vp6564]

Canadians can save a lot of money by cancelling both the carbon tax and the CBC!

[@shriramsagar.k4537]

Canadians can save a lot of money by staying out of Canada 183 days a year..

[@Optimistprime.]

Canadians can save a lot of money by not buying cigarettes, lottery tickets, alcohol, gas thirsty trucks they don't need, buying expensive oversized off road tires that just burn more gas, not eating out so much, stop buying fast food...the list of wasting money goes on and on.

[@vp6564]

@@Optimistprime. yeah, but smoking, eating out etc., these are personal choices not government mandated tax that increases prices of not only transportation and home heating but also most goods and services. From groceries to dental care, their costs will be passed on we know who. Of course, you can skip meals or pull out your teeth so to save on cleaning and filling cavities and keep voting for the same politicians. 🤪

[@Optimistprime.]

@vp6564 I did the math, and with my car ill be spending an extra $2 to $3 every mouth. I fill up twice a mouth and I drive a Hybrid. For my Honda Ridgeline will be about $6 more a mouth. Inflation is causing things to go up vastly more than this carbon tax, that you will get a rebate back for, will ever do. I wish PP would fixate on that instead.

[@promich7194]

Carbon isn't taxed, it's massively subsidized.

[@therealblairsmith]

Costing us more with more to come.

[@promich7194]

Carbon subsidies out measure carbon taxes by 1000 to 1.

[@892303001]

It will cost our country

[@pattyzadow1867]

Yea we know who pays your salaries

[@marilynsheppard2063]

Yeah! We do. The government has no money of their own.

[@dmfaccount1272]

Whenever CBC posts an anti Trudeau or anti liberal article people act amazed. If you actually read cbc articles you would see they do it all the time. Cbc isn't equivalent to Russian state media...

[@seangregory932]

You know what will help reduce forrest fires???People not starting them.

[@iam1smiley1]

Environ-mentalists causing them to say "look at the global warming" or the newest word "climate change" so we can complain anytime we don't like the weather.

[@jason8679]

Also water, not taxes

[@shannonpetryshyn183]

The amount of fires will depend on how many inviromentalist trudeau hires😂😂

[@darlene2709]

What difference does it make if fires are started by Jewish space lasers, careless campers or lightning? Hot dry weather is going to allow fires to burn longer regardless of the cause.

[@belledorris3163]

Theres many causes to wildfires. 1: Lightning. 2: Human activity (mostly trains, transport truck, road vehicle, off road vehicle, campers and Arsonist). 3: Tree disease (pine beetle kills all trees in certain parts of bc and alberta. 4: Climate change is real (10000 years ago there was at least 1000 feet of snow over all the eastearn slope of the Rockies). 5: Forestry management ( im not an expert but we surely can do better then planting 2x4 in the ground...😂 pine is transformed into construction lumber). 6: Firefighting (Prevention or Actual fighting both need some thinking and ressources allocated every where not sure we have enough fire Bombers). Get used to it the ice isnt coming back and thats the cycle we are in on earth. Carbon taxe or not the ice that melts doesnt come back.

[@iam1smiley1]

The carbon tax is costing me EVERYTHING!!! I work 10+ hours a day in the trades, skip meals, go to the food bank and still not making ends meet....I have nothing more too give to our extravagant government who already wants 50% of my money in NB and offers little in return but more taxes.

[@jason8679]

How old are you? I feel your anger and I’m not in your position. At work I’m the most angry about this and I work with a 23 yr old that just bought a $250,000 house for over a half million. It’s so sad but he doesn’t even know how good it use to be.

[@billdonahue1688]

How is it that the carbon tax is costing you "EVERYTHING!!!", when the federal carbon tax rebates you receive every three months exceed the total carbon tax you pay, directly and indirectly?

[@spaxx3849]

You don't know how taxes work....

[@derecksmith4799]

There's more policy issues than the carbon tax. The entire regime is intent on quality of life destruction, carbon being re-classed as pollution is just their method of controlling energy consumption, and energy consumption is quality of life. They are also engaging in other forms of quality of life reduction.

[@marymarymillidweeb2661]

how does the gov't give back more money than they took? Where did that extra money come from?@@billdonahue1688

[@wayneandrews1022]

I think the PBO forgets the cost of bureaucrats administering this bullshit tax.

[@FERNANDOAUGUSTO-fv1ck]

Exactly

[@jason8679]

How can they pay government workers for this program and still end up with paying more back? How crazy is this mad man? He has to be lining his pockets! Nothing makes sense, it’s the twilight zone, seriously, the world has gone mad.

[@martyd6273]

Trudork sees all his friends that get jobs with the government as votes. Cannot stand this prime minister!!!

[@philipshort20]

200 million a year to administer the carbon tax.

[@tedpoplawski4325]

Only lieberals- dippers think increasing taxes results in having more money in one’s pockets.

[@GeorgeDavis-f1b]

You want to fix the weather with tax😢 but can't fix homeless

[@Trev-h1j]

We barely contribute to climate change we have one of the largest boreal forests in the world! It's a scam! You cant believe anything the liberals say!

[@ddcc0v0]

They can't even predict the weather, much less control it.

[@zwicker5585]

or... they are trying to do both. get that!

[@zwicker5585]

@@ddcc0v0no one is trying to control the weather

[@ddcc0v0]

@@zwicker5585 Yikes. You can't extrapolate at all? I'm curious, what is your level of education friend?

[@whitfieldsealy]

Cbc trying hard to save Justin !!

[@Rain-sg6yq]

@@ruthhenry9577 lucky for you, I don't get a refund in BC.

[@Sharon-lc4oh]

Intelligent canadian voters will keep Trudeau alive after 2025! Intelligent conservatives is an oxymoron so it will be up to the smart people a.k.a. liberal voters. Poindexter Poilievre will be irrelevant soon enough to an extent not seen since his birth.

[@Mike-e7s]

Generated a Secret RCMP report. If Canadians knew how broke they really are..

[@dka618]

our children will be even more broke, trying to deal with the climate they will inherent from us

[@WackoJacko2016]

@@dka618what is so difficult about that assertion is that the forecasts for both the future climate and economy are wildly speculative. There’s not even a consensus on carbon and it’s impact to GW. Making energy more expensive globally has pushed over 100 million people into poverty. Is it fair to burden people today for unproven theory for 2050? I’m just not sold. Why not make energy abundant and cheap. Use coal and nuclear. Pull Africa out of poverty Empowering another couple billion people and when not fighting for survival they will likely care more for the environment and start to look ahead.

[@handymanreality]

​@@WackoJacko2016Wow how kind of you to GAMBLE the lives of others with ZERO actual numbers to dispute the current SCIENCE.

[@ddcc0v0]

​@@handymanrealityYou think SCIENCE is honest 😂 You produce the results you are asked for or you find a new avenue to prove what is asked for OR you get no funding.

[@miriamm2978]

The Emporer has no clothes! There is NO science and NO assessment to back that the carbon tax will make ANY effect on the enviroment. Enjoy your hunger, dude. I know what way I am voting.

[@robindanbrook9257]

Would cutting the CBC be a carbon offset?

[@JPD2587]

I don’t want the rebate. Just get rid of the tax.

[@TT-cc8vn]

You probably say that because you have enough money to not need it. For some Canadians the rebate helps put food on their tables.

[@Tyler_Owen23]

@@TT-cc8vnyou do realize no one is buying your BS, right? You do realize that almost no one trust the establishment media anymore, right? You are out of touch

[@gordleith9474]

@@TT-cc8vnYep,rebate turning food banks and grocery store dumpsters and tent cities into ghost towns

[@rickbaker8188]

Then don't be a hypocrite and send it back before you vote.

[@silverdew5747]

@@TT-cc8vn What are you talking about, carbon price is included in the food price. Carbon tax is added to the production of the food and then to the method of delivering the food to your table. Corporation passes these extra costs to Canadians.

[@richardhunwick5682]

Drop the carbon tax, and infation and interest rates will fall also

[@McLovin1759]

This was calculated by the Bank of Canada. If you drop the Carbon Tax, there would be a 1 time 0.6% drop in Inflation at most. Interest rates are falling this summer.

[@sanjilee6148]

@@McLovin1759😂😂😂😂

[@McLovin1759]

@@sanjilee6148 Facts are funny?

[@rogergagnon8110]

over-made-up doesn't change anything about her intelligence@@sanjilee6148

[@alexlaxton4977]

More bunk Conservative economics lol

[@MB-to5gl]

Why rebates - just axe the tax.

[@nabatron21]

It’s virtue signaling! It’s tricking people into thinking the government is out to help people by giving tax payers their own money back! Lol

[@ginor8416]

Because it creates a Bureaucracy that collects the tax and provides cushy government jobs for the chosen

[@canadiansareracist]

@@ginor8416can you put that in simple terms sir ?

[@jason8679]

@@ginor8416just wait Gino. Wait for this scandal to come out. I bet their cleaning our money in Ukraine and lining their pockets.

[@worstknightmayor4439]

​@@canadiansareracisthistory has proven that liberals = big government and big taxes.

[@shannonpetryshyn183]

Wow david he told you five times that people are worse off and ypu still cant figure it out hope cbc isnt paying you to much

[@marsazorean62]

You need to learn grammar. But I get your point.

[@derecksmith4799]

If people weren't worse off then the tax wouldn't be reducing carbon emissions. Carbon emissions are quality of life. Reduction in carbon emissions is reduction in quality of life. The debate around the money is purely an attempt to confuse people with pseudo-intellectualism. What Canada is doing is intentionally destroying people's quality of life in an attempt to control the weather. That is, unless you believe the government is just a nefarious entity, at that point they're just hurting you because they like hurting you.

[@Sam19509]

We are not worse off he only did an economic analysis of the policy and even then he agrees with the Liberals 8/10 families and individuals will get more in rebates than they pay in carbon tax. The PBO did not consider enviornmental and climate impacts from the carbon tax like cleaner air and lower healthcare costs.😂😂

[@larrybethune3909]

@@Sam19509 Sam, you really need to listen more completely. All things considered, only the 1st quintile, 20% of Canadians, are better off financially. No financial policy works without impacts from the market.

[@shannonpetryshyn183]

@Sam19509 you must have listened to a different story or you have a hard time understanding

[@johnbabbin6489]

Anyone who pays Utilities and buys food knows this is not true . Pant's on fire sir

[@john15008]

Look up “arbitrary dismissal.”

[@robprepp]

What is the carbon tax doing? Nothing

[@promich7194]

It's a distraction. You fell for the lib-con lie. Carbon subsidies out measure carbon taxes by 1000 to 1. Follow the money. There is no real carbon tax. It's Lib-Con fantasy.

[@KellyBrownlee]

I like this PBO guy, he's telling it like it is.

[@traviscutler9912]

I guess the fact that he agrees with the industry that donates the most to both parties is totally a coincidence for the fact he supports the oil and gas industry

[@littlelittle5]

​@@traviscutler9912Truth hurts!😂😂

[@tedpoplawski4325]

@@traviscutler9912you mean the industry that contributes BILLIONS to help support Canada’s social services etc?

[@Optimistprime.]

​@traviscutler9912 you wouldn't be happy hearing anything that doesn't agree with your own biased conclusions.

[@traviscutler9912]

@@tedpoplawski4325 it's important but not as much as they tend to think. Oil and gas, including extraction and support activities, petroleum refining, pipeline transportation and natural gas distribution, account for 7.5% of national GDP. Oil and gas extraction occurs primarily in Alberta, with the province accounting for 74% of Canadian oil and gas extraction in 2019.

[@steezyblu]

Thank you, CBC. I really needed to get gaslit today.

[@ickster23]

From what JT and the CBC tells me, i pay the carbon tax but then i get it all back in a check. In other news, unicorns and fairies have been spotted in downtown Toronto.

[@shannonpetryshyn183]

Good one 😂😂😂😂😂

[@nigelhutchinson5332]

The Fairies part is confirmed.

[@NewYork0110J]

JT wants you to prove you emit less carbon by holding your breath for 10 mins to get maximum rebates

[@jason8679]

👆 THIS! lol

[@kluciano7259]

Wait until they tell you that the car you are nursing as long as you can is no longer permitted....

[@familyb5800]

What is cbc costing

[@kluciano7259]

1.6 billion.

[@PrimaryIgnition]

too much

[@ellenmoore7282]

Same as when cons were in govt. you people really can’t see beyond your noses. I’m more upset that fuel tax went up 0.14 in AB as opposed to 0.03. Math

[@tedpoplawski4325]

@@ellenmoore7282time to defund the lieberal propaganda arm..aka the CBC.

[@Tyler_Owen23]

@@ellenmoore7282you do realize no one trust or even watching the CBC anymore, right? Lol

[@donnarocha4043]

I will never vote for the liberal ndp party, tax tax tax 😢 🇨🇦 🇨🇦 🇨🇦

[@worstknightmayor4439]

Liberals = big government and big taxes.

[@rickbaker8188]

So?

[@promich7194]

You fell for the lib-con lie. Carbon subsidies out measure carbon taxes by 1000 to 1. Follow the money. There is no real carbon tax. It's Lib-Con fantasy.

[@ibrahimm2012]

Canada with 40 million people paying carbon tax meanwhile USA , Mexico , china they are enjoining life . Imposing car tax is like taking away the blankets from a homeless people in -40’c temperature. ❤

[@billdonahue1688]

FYI, 13 states with more than a quarter of the U.S. population and accounting for more than a third of U.S. GDP have active carbon-pricing programs. But, as you say, they are somehow still enjoying life.

[@pauldonovan9713]

We get more back than we pay.

[@drwzer]

What car tax has been imposed?😂

[@kampdavies]

unless the entire world is doing the same things it is useless.

[@promich7194]

That's a series of lies. Carbon subsidies out measure carbon taxes by 1000 to 1. Follow the money. There is no real carbon tax. It's Lib-Con fantasy.

[@scottmiller8617]

The rebates barely cover the increase in groceries, let alone gas and other products

[@john15008]

Just for kicks, what percentage of the increase in grocery prices do you think is attributable to the carbon tax? How do you arrive at this figure?

[@scottmiller8617]

@john15008 trucks that deliver supplies to farms pay the tax on gas so they charge farmers more, farm products Need to be delivered by transports that run on gas that pay the tax, so they charge the farmers more, So the farmer has to increase his prices. The grocery stores have to charge more because of the price increases. You really haven't put much thought into this, have you? Haha. Critical thinking is a wonderful thing kid, give it a try before asking something so self explanatory

[@john15008]

@@scottmiller8617 You didn’t answer my question. Percentage? Formula you used to arrive at it?

[@littlelittle5]

​​@@john15008 Carbon Tax is compounded by 12 times before you buy or use the product Also, Gst added to that over and over..

[@john15008]

@@littlelittle5 So, as a percentage, this “compounding” adds what percentage to the final price? That was my original inquiry.

[@schmitkeoriginals]

What is it going to cost Libs/NDP ... their jobs! 😁😁😁

[@promich7194]

You fell for the lib-con lie. Carbon subsidies out measure carbon taxes by 1000 to 1. Follow the money. There is no real carbon tax. It's Lib-Con fantasy.

[@JefferySeeger]

Lol $5000 I pay for gas a year with $400 returned to me

[@stoutz]

Those numbers don't tell any kind of story. If the carbon tax was removed and your gas costs went down to 4,700, then that means you were benefitting from the carbon tax.

[@SomecallmeTim-1]

Carbon tax is .14 / L. So if you are paying $5,000 in carbon tax for gas, you are buying 35,715 litres of gas in a year. So you are either driving 357,150 KM a year (assuming 10L/100KM) OR you are outright lying.

[@nixiekin6367]

You don't get the money to pay for all of your gas, just the tax portion. If you are spending $5000 on a 14% tax then you are kinda part of the reason carbon pricing exists

[@ddcc0v0]

​@@SomecallmeTim-1Nice math. 😂 8 year old me would still mock you.

[@Kitty666EmoGoth]

@@SomecallmeTim-1 Did that take into account the last two carbon taxes?

[@lifewuzonceezr]

We Pay For Extra Insulation, Insurance,..because what if...This is not a what if!

[@Ladner1]

CBC misleading as always

[@billdonahue1688]

What's misleading about it? They're presenting the actual authors of the actual reports being referred to by Liberals and Conservatives, and pointing out how the reports' findings are being misused.

[@stoutz]

You not liking it doesn't make it misleading.

[@BobBob-b5d]

⁠@Tomyum19Aren't you the woman whose household makes 200k/year and is quite frugal? You're probably getting more money back the CT rebate then, or at worst, breaking even.

[@BobBob-b5d]

@Tomyum19And at worst your husband and you are paying just a tad bit more, the cost of a few tomyum soup bowls or burger meals. You can handle that, no?

[@lornarichardson5655]

David thinks he is smarter than the average. He will lose his job when puppet master Trudeau isn't paying him a bonus

[@Livsalittlefarm]

A cascading negative impact... it would be one thing if the carbon tax improved "climate change". We had a carbon tax in 2023 and one of the worst fire season on record. What would actually reduce carbon emissions? There's hundred of ways we could actually reduce carbon emissions that would help people instead of punish them. Incentive local food by removing taxes from farmers, sending liquefied natural gas all over the globe and displacing coal....

[@promich7194]

LNG doesn't help climate change. And the LNG market is crashing now due to over supply. Look it up.

[@academicmachine]

omg this CBC tool was fishing so hard for any straws to get Yves to put some doubt in the report and just face-planted miserably LOL

[@DWreck958]

I can't even vaction inter-provincially because of the carbon taxes impact on gas. Forget flying anywhere like Trudeau does regularly...

[@AJJames-q2c]

Carbon Tax is just a small part of everything in Canada going up in price! We have whole villages of homeless people in every city things are worse then ever!!

[@jeffspicolli593]

There are four carbon pricing (taxes) schemes in Ontario. 1. The direct tax on fuels at the pump and home heating. 2. The price per ton on heavy emmitters. 3. The clean fuel initiative introduced on July 1st last. 4. The GST on all the above. Tell me again about how these taxes have a negligible effect on infllation?

[@ye333]

So the goal of carbon tax is to achieve this "goal", so that trudeau can brag about it in front of his "big guy" "friends". It has nothing to do with the climate. 😂

[@tedpoplawski4325]

Exactly..why was there a “ carve out” for people in the Atlantic and not the rest of Canada?

[@Kala12326]

This is all about rich people wanting to feel a self righteous high and using the average Canadian as a stepping stool to achieve it.

[@nooa69]

We're f*cking broke! FJT, FMSM and F the carbon tax!

[@rickbaker8188]

Holy f-bomb there bud. Lie down, take some deep breaths, relax, you're in Canada.

[@rickbateman2401]

So the long and short is that Poilievre is right but I also think this report grossly underestimates the direct costs to Canadians.

[@rickbateman2401]

@richardmurray8515 when there is a viable alternative in places that don’t have large rivers to spin turbines or large enough bodies of water to make nuclear safe and viable, let me know.

[@olaguibel27]

The 'counter argument' by the interviewer is quite a joke, he is saying: "So the criticism to your report is that you only consider the scenario where carbon tax is applied vs no carbon tax, but how about scenarios outside of these two cases? and to add to that, how about the hypothetical scenarios where carbon tax is not applied and more floodings, fires, etc happen?" So basically, he is asking: Estimate the cost under technologies that we don't have or estimate the cost under future climate events. Things that neither the entire financial industry can do (1st point), nor the entire scientist community have ever been able to do with fair accuracy (2nd point).

[@Nicole-xd1uj]

Considering that most Canadians can't afford to go out, can't afford to buy anything and can't afford to eat, it's not surprising to see a reduction in carbon production.

[@stu8538]

If it turns out 10 years down the road we should have stuck with the current plan… it’s still Trudeaus fault, you need a leader who’s TRUSTWORTHY and capable of explaining the plan, as well as arguing it with the opposition in detail. LEADER needed.

[@richardhunwick5682]

Get rid of Cbc, that would also help

[@sidlife365]

Tradeau must go! Axe the tax, build the homes, fix the budget and stop the crime.

[@shriramsagar.k4537]

Stopping crime hard. Government does not have budget for that!!. More tax More cops.

[@SolutionsWithin]

The climate emergency is going to increase crime and refugees to all northern countries. There will be a scarcity of water, food, and all other conveniences including housing. Much much worse than now. Very quickly.

[@bactron]

Here is a simplified example. I do service on restaurant equipment. I drive a service van. I pay carbon tax on my fuel and some materials. My cost to the business go up due to my higher costs. They raise the price of the meals due to my higher costs. Multiply this by every service provider to said restaurant and voila, inflation due to carbon pricing.

[@davidsmith9873]

axe the tax

[@johnjoseph2801]

Do we have to spend more money to get the rebates? A rebate is a partial refund of the cost if an item.

[@dka618]

can CBC also publish news on the multiple times higher costs of not fighting climate change?

[@derecksmith4799]

When you fight climate change and lose, you pay the cost of climate change, plus the cost of fighting it. Controlling the weather is not possible, and even if it was, the people who think they can do it are telling you they can only do it with 100% buy-in from the global population. Since the buy-in is an impossibility, attempts to control the weather will always fail, even if the plan could have worked in theory. The conditions required to make the plan work can never exist.

[@rodneysauder1867]

This lieberal interviewer has talked to CBCs"experts" again, so he MUST be speaking the truth ,right ?

[@mikeb5664]

Do your own Google searches. It's not that difficult.

[@rodneysauder1867]

@@mikeb5664 stay in Ontario where you lieberal lovers seem to congregate,

[@IsraelistheJewsland]

So taxing us more will change the weather?​@@mikeb5664

[@mikeb5664]

@@rodneysauder1867 Just happens to be where all the voters, jobs and money are.

[@lukasfuina3836]

Mr. Giroux is an absolute gem o f Parliament. A very consequential Officer of Parliament. He does great work and handles the public arena well.

[@andrewnicholl5703]

If you want to reduce emissions, provide an alternative. There is no alternative for commercial industries. Incentives have historically proven to work whereas punitive actions will only put those without an alternative out of business

[@matti8894]

Defund CBC

[@gloodle]

Here’s a question that nobody seems to ask. What does it do to lower carbon if the government supposedly gives us more back. It’s insanity

[@Optimistprime.]

For me, in my situation, this hike is only costing me between $2.60 to $3.00 per mouth. On the flip side to that, with how expensive everything else is, the timing is absolutely terrible.

[@dereknagel840]

He sure didn't like hearing that some extreme weather events happen naturally lol. Or when Giroux disagreed with him that his report wasn't being misused.

[@irakibbe9329]

My families fuel bill is 9 grand a year for two vehicles. And my home heating is 1500 a year. Average family in an average town with two working incomes. We don't get a cent back in rebates. I know where our votes are going.

[@petercullen1624]

What province?

[@jkaras1032]

Probably BC, no carbon rebates there

[@Fundywhatshappening]

There has never been a statement that if we solve carbon production in Canada the costs of climate change in Canada will go away…because they won’t…if we achieve our carbon goals it doesn’t change anything globally in any significant way, that’s a problem that has yet to be addressed. No one is looking to Canada as an example to follow at this time.

[@jason8679]

I’m kinda glad the non confidence vote got defeated. It will make October 20/25 more satisfying to see the worst prime minister go down in the books as the biggest loss in Canadian history. FJT.

[@castielw8291]

But have you ever thought about what if he knew he won’t be winning the election and just wanna gain more profits before he leaves!

[@john15008]

Worst prime minister? You may not be old enough to remember how unpopular Mulroney was when he resigned. Obviously, no one is saying that he was the “worst PM” today.

[@jason8679]

@@john15008 I do remember Mulroney. I’m old enough. It is one thing to be unpopular and another to be unpopular, radical and rogue during your mandate. Mulroney didn’t uproot canada like this government has. Mulroney just wasn’t popular at the end of his political career. I use to hear how JT dad was always worse when I could criticize JT. I don’t hear anyone say that now, JT is the worst.

[@john15008]

@@jason8679 How has JT uprooted Canada? Do you remember why Mulroney was so unpopular?

[@jason8679]

@@john15008 I’m not interested in talking about Mulroney, old news. JT has made life very expensive, being green doesn’t matter when you can’t pay the bills. That’s done through printing money and carbon tax. Women’s sports and safe places are in jeopardy. No trust in the government due to all the scandals. They don’t talk kindly about Canadians during pandemic. Free speech in question now. That’s just a quick off the top of my head.

[@Mechone11]

BS in a house of 2 in Ontario I get 700.00 it doesnt even cover the tax on gasoline comute everyday let alone my wifes , then add natural gas where its 1/4 of my bill, then non direct like groceries and goods , this government is nothing but liars. My grocery bill alone has almost doubled in the last 2 years

[@stoutz]

A great, easy to understand breakdown of the effects of the carbon tax on Canadians. Appreciate the budget officer for coming on and speaking candidly.

[@Juefee]

Why even tax us if we get more back than we pay in taxes??

[@Echozulu2001]

Why did you not mention this Lib Gov decision NOT to export our LNG to othe high emmissions countries? Like China. Why no mention of thier decision to NOT build the Energy east pipeline? Both projects would have huge benefit in polution reduction in Canada, and worldwide. To ignore these very real solutions only serves to confirm the view that this Carbon tax grab is justa gigantic swindle for Canadians!

[@tysonb1486]

This was a great segment to help understand the carbon tax.

[@CarlPenney-ey9ou]

Does the other provinces paying the carbon tax for importing oil for gas products?

[@willmajor4559]

Where are the goods and services impacted? Where is the government's responsibility not to infringe on inflation impact due to higher controllable taxes so this doesn't happen? The Canadian Government isn't allowed by law to impose higher inflation by raising the taxes to impose paying more for interest rate hikes as a direct result of them increasing taxes.

[@willmajor4559]

What a scam! Where is the RCMP? How come there is no investigation into this? 37 Million people should be in arms about this unlawful act against the people of Canada the biggest lie is this report and everyone who backs it should be serving time in prison immediately. The press covering this shouldn't even put this on the air, because they look like supporters of this scam to Canadians.

[@tyman350lc7]

Wait. You guys are getting rebates?

[@Rain-sg6yq]

Not in BC

[@willmajor4559]

Get this straight when you get your rebate it/household is $450.00 for 3 months now to fill your car costs you $75.00 if you live in Alberta for 10 days: if you live in BC this is $123.00; if you live in Saskatchewan, $93.00; Ontario $95.00; Quebec $98.00; New Brunswick $104.00; Nova Scotia $112.00; PEI $118.00 and NFD $121.00 every 10 days so I'm not sure where they are getting their results from. This is only for traveling back and forth to work if you live in the city. Gas for your vehicle only lasts for 1.25 months if you only drive from work to home, not to pick up your sons or daughters, not for groceries or getaways. This report is being manipulated right from the start, when does the government tell you that they are paying out more than they are taking in, why have a rebate then or a committee to tell you the difference or line of accountants to show them why they need them. What about the services that are going up to deal with this higher cost of living. Then the budget for Canadian inflation will drive up interest rates because they can't get inflation under control but it stems back from Carbon tax increases.

[@mfa330]

On what planet do you believe the purpose of the carbon tax rebate is to pay for you gas? It only pays the carbon tax portion which is pretty small...

[@nickyalousakis3851]

the question very few of the electorate is asking is this....."why is an idea two decades old carbon taxing still on our govts radar, when it is ineffective at reducing carbon emissions"? various european nations have abandoned carbon taxing as it failed to produce results. everyone agrees humans should reduce emissions.... what we need are more cerebral ideas or concepts than what this failed govt is adopting.

[@shawnmcknight5960]

JT talks about using basic math to prove the carbon tax isn’t a cause for inflation. I’m not sure how ANYONE can actually believe that! With increased carbon taxing, that means higher prices for basically everything (at least groceries, products & materials, deliveries, etc) because EVERYONE is affected. The factory passes on the increase they incur for importing materials…the stores pass on increases they incur for deliveries…and so-on? How are there still people that don’t recognize the most basic of economics?

[@billdonahue1688]

A couple of months ago, Stats Canada released their latest report on the total costs of carbon tax on things like groceries, including both direct carbon tax and indirect carbon tax paid during production, processing, shipping, etc, and it was 1/3rd of 1% of the end price of groceries. So relax. Your assumption about the high cost of carbon tax on your groceries is wildly overestimated. And therefore probably for most other things, too.

[@shawnmcknight5960]

@@billdonahue1688 stats Canada…yeah, they’re authentic & reliable.

[@shawnmcknight5960]

@@billdonahue1688 it’s not just groceries Billy Boy, it’s EVERYTHING that deals with materials, production, deliveries, etc. You’re not really naive or ignorant enough to believe that a 23% carbon tax hike that is incurred by manufacturers won’t be passed onto distributors…Which won’t be passed onto retailers…Which won’t be passed onto consumers. You’re not that biased towards the Liberal Liberty propaganda machine…right?

[@alexp7984]

​@@shawnmcknight5960What better source of factual statistics would you suggest?

[@john15008]

@@shawnmcknight5960Yes, your imagination is a far better source.

[@john15008]

Would Conservatives consider preserving the industrial carbon price despite its trickle down economic effects, despite its efficacy at reducing emissions?

[@michaellenz9040]

And wild fire bullshit how many were set come on tell the truth

[@w.a.l5202]

The Upper Tantallon wildfire in suburban Halifax was accidentally set by a homeowner, and the Shelburne wildfire on the South Shore was accidentally set by drunk teenagers. Neither had anything to do with climate change.

[@martinjackson2431]

Yeah nothing like climate deniers setting fires…A Quebec man who posted conspiracy theories online that forest fires were being deliberately set by the government has pleaded guilty to starting a series of fires himself that forced hundreds of people from their homes.

[@shannonpetryshyn183]

The amount of fires will depend on how many activists trudeau hires

[@shannonpetryshyn183]

The crazies will be out with matches again

[@darlene2709]

What difference does it make if fires are started by Jewish space lasers, careless campers or lightning? Hot dry weather is going to allow fires to burn longer regardless of the reason for ignition.

[@lesliegweir]

What about the economic impact of climate change??? Wake up people!

[@matti8894]

Axe the tax !

[@mfa330]

And replace it with something that is less efficient so costs us more to have less impact?

[@matti8894]

Export LNG to reduce China, India coal plants. That’s very efficient and we’ll make a fortune

[@MarkMunro-y8f]

This not take account of fires that were deliberately set by Trudeaus minions.😂😂😂.

[@oldmansgoldenwords]

CBC spin hour in full swing #DefundCBC

[@kluciano7259]

Pierre Poilievre cannot be Prime Minister fast enough!

[@geoffslade1532]

Very appreciative of Mr. Giroux's non-bias analysis and presentation of carbon tax implementation. Every form of media should learn from his professionalism.

[@john15008]

He is excellent at what he does and is careful not to fan political rhetoric.

[@ye333]

Sacrificing to serve the planet Lords, priceless! 😂

[@JonReing]

DIDNT THE BUDGET OFFICER JUST SAY THAT CARBON PRICING ENDS UP LEAVING 80% OF CANADIAN FAMILIES WITH MORE MONEY? WHATS WRONG WITH THE COMMENTS IN THIS VIDEO SAYING CARBON PRICING IS BAD? DID YOU WATCH THE VIDEO?

[@IsraelistheJewsland]

So taxing people is going to change the weather? Is that what you belive? Or is taxing the rich your plan? I just don't get what this accomplishes other than making it harder on us all

[@JonReing]

@@IsraelistheJewslandit’s forcing companies to pollute less and to help industry adapt to climate change and create new technologies which the PBO suggests will have a decent likelihood of more benefits to our economy post 2030. He explains it all in this video…..

[@shannonpetryshyn183]

You should learn to listen actually he said 4 times 60 percent of people are worse off

[@shriramsagar.k4537]

We cant stop emission. Nobody wants walk in the winter. Everybody owns a car.@@JonReing

[@billdonahue1688]

They watched the video... but they just don't accept what the PBO says because it directly conflicts with what they insist on believing is true. Because they think Pierre Poilievre - a guy who lives in a 19-room mansion, has a personal chef, and will get the country's best pension by far, all at no expense to himself - is here to protect and promote the interests of "the little guy" who's just struggling to get by. LOL. Talk about wilful denial of reality!

[@billdonahue1688]

The obvious gap in the Conservatives' position about the economic costs associated with having a carbon tax - and the PBO's original report - is that the wider economic implications of the carbon tax are not weighed against the economic implications of doing nothing about GHG emissions and the climate change they're causing. The economic costs estimated for not doing anything about GHG emissions is a decline in personal income of 19%, and it's higher the less you make. That is, poor people will suffer more. As they do point out in this video, putting a clear price on GHG emissions is the cheapest and most economically efficient and operationally effective way to achieve emissions reductions. So if the Cons are insisting on getting rid of the carbon price and also promising to replace it with some other policy approach, it is pretty much guaranteed that tehir option will cost Canadians and the Canadian economy more than the carbon tax will. So either way you look at it, Pierre Poilievre's and Danielle Smith's preferred path is to make most Canadians poorer, when it comes to dealing with GHG emissions.

[@john15008]

Or do nothing on the climate file at all. The question is, how palatable will that be to voters in 2025

[@BobBob-b5d]

Pierre uses the average carbon tax cost, which is indeed a negative, to insinuate that all households pay more money into the CT than they get back through the rebates. This is not the case. The low and middle-income households, 4 out of 10 (making about that 100k/year and under), do get more money back, something like 200$ to 600$. The slightly richer and rich households, 4 out of 10 (making over 150k/year to the millions) do lose more. But because some of them pay a lot more, like up to 4-5-6k, their losses then skew the average into the negative. The rich however have money so it's not some undue hardship on them. The other 2 out of 10 households break even or pay slightly more, like the cost of a few burger meals. That's if they don’t change their ways.

[@lisafranco9886]

Canadian Climate Institute- Paid for by Trudeau - Although they say that they are non-partisan - Just like the CBC but for Environment From their Website -Our work is supported through a multi-year contribution agreement with Environment and Climate Change Canada and a growing list of philanthropic funders. While we are proud to work with a variety of partners and funders on specific initiatives, the Institute retains full control over its research, findings, and policy recommendations. The Canadian Climate Institute became a registered charity in 2021.

[@Mike-e7s]

Guantanamo Bay in Canada. Political prisoners

[@wolfesmoke]

A generation who cant afford to buy a house or eat properly agrees to give billions to the government to save turtles from plastic straws and hope the weather outside gets better🤨

[@IceFromTheSun]

I'd like Giroux to come to the conservators.

[@gbosdet1]

I finally get why Pierre is so vague about his potential policies. If he gave out enough detail the PBO could compare his potential policies to the current ones, which he doesn't want.

[@defconbrown8667]

0 pushback on the fiscal claim. 0. Then right to the economic claim. Pushback. Pushback. Pushback.

[@slipperyslope3912]

This was a useless interview. A tax can't give more back to 80% of people, while simultaneously rebating less in most or all provinces. It's physically impossible. So something is haywire here and you should be asking what.

[@bobbi-leeeccleston1841]

The carbon tax is doing more to impoverish Canadians than it is lower our “carbon “ emissions. This is an expensive virtue signal at the expense of Canadians. It doesn’t mean anything until politicians that are pushing this tax quit using private jets.

[@georgedavidson1221]

There is no climate emergency, Canada is such a small world player we can’t influence the world weather Stop the lie, stop the tax

[@john15008]

Don’t forget to remind us that the world is flat too!

[@sophianerol8749]

Just get rid of the tax and Trudeau!

[@movingtocalgary01]

How much jobs Canada 🇨🇦 lost due to Carbon tax & went to China 🇨🇳, India 🇮🇳, Mexico 🇲🇽 or elsewhere in the world 🌎 🌍

[@ryanhamelin8272]

Doesn't war cause a lot of carbon pollution? So taxing and punishing Canadians for pollution then sending bombs and money to support the pollution caused by the war in Ukraine.

[@menow8090]

Germany has introduced a 49 Euro monthly ticket for all regional trains and buses. It has meant that many families, mine included, no longer use our cars. A super idea, that reduces the need for cars, encourages tourism and provides jobs for transport workers.

[@videomonster9778]

The carbon tax costs everyone more than they get back, and doesn't reduce emissions.

[@themcguires3562]

Not just the Conservatives promoting the PBO report. The Liberals are highly promoting the PBO simple answer. Be balanced.

[@jonathondagg-coljee9480]

Looks like working for cash is the only way to keep your money

[@mfa330]

Which incidentally does not affect even one bit how much carbon tax you pay...

[@rogergagnon8110]

If I felt Canadian I would seriously consider 4 or 5 countries in the north of America. Example of the so-called Scandinavian countries. Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Finland. Please, Canadians, there It's not just Quebec which should become independent from Ottawa, Toronto branch. EVERYONE would be a winner. And the center, which if there is global warming, oceans within your reach. Would you give the gains to Toronto?

[@BobBob-b5d]

No households will be hurt because of the CT. The poorer and middle-income households, 4 out of 10 ($120k/year and under), will get more money. The upperish middle-income households, 2 out of 10 ($150k/year or so) break even or pay a tad bit more, the cost of a few restaurant burger meals. The richer and rich households ($250k to the millions per year) lose a bit, but it's not hurting them. They have money. The only things hurt might be their pride and politics.