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Tories have 'successfully' scapegoated carbon price in affordability crisis: Trudeau (www.ctvnews.ca)
submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says the Conservative party has been successful at "scapegoating" the carbon price as the reason everything is more expensive.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

this scheme that's mathematically proven to be profitable to most of you guys even if you won't believe it?

I live in a rural region of the Atlantic Provinces. People are chuffed as hell to get a mini-split - not only is it cheaper, it's also air conditioning. It's a regular topic of conversation at kids events and grocery stores.

It's highly likely that people still on oil are in a bad spot. Either they are:

  1. renters who pay for heating oil,
  2. they are out of touch and unaware of the programs,
  3. they looked into it in the past and bounced off the byzantine maze of bureaucracy you need to navigate to get the zero interest loans (this has been "fixed" by third parties who do it for you),
  4. they are poor and assume it will cost them.
[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago

What I'm saying is that this tax benefits them because they receive a cheque to compensate and unless they own a business that needs to burn petrol then they're receiving more than they're paying.

It would only be fair that if people are now exempted from the tax, they shouldn't receive the cheque (just like the people living in provinces that already had a carbon tax or equivalent in place don't get a cheque from the federal government since they don't pay the federal tax) and maybe then they would realise that they were complaining about something that actually made them richer!

Not only that, so far every place that has removed their local tax has seen prices go back up as the industry just raised its prices to compensate, easy profit for them because the majority is simply uninformed and believes the tax is to blame even if it doesn't exist anymore.