Has it lowered emissions? Is there any real, measurable way to tell if it did. has had a carbon tax for 14 years - which by the way made it into general revenue despite all the holy vows that it would never do that. What other misspeaks, contradictions and evasions come with the carbon tax? Well, for one that it does anything.
You put another name on something only when you are, or should be, ashamed of it. They won’t call the carbon tax what it is, they call it what it is not. It is in no sense whatsoever a “tax on pollution.” That phrase is what the bull leaves with such malodorous abundance in the meadow every time he has serious stomach problems. Otherwise it would be very embarrassing for all of us every time we exhale. The phrase you hear and have heard from climate ministers and the green warrior himself, Justin Trudeau, is “putting a price on pollution.” You hear that phrase and you’re meant to think of tons of sewage pouring into some pristine lake or some dread chemical spill into a town’s drinking water.Ĭarbon dioxide is not sewage. Second, the Liberals don’t even like to call it a tax.
The Liberals have put a tax on the air we breathe. Carbon reeks of coal and soot - pollutants. And why would they? It’s lip gloss on the policy swine. Yet everywhere in the news and on every panel show that’s what it’s called and the Liberals oblige that confusion.