by James Murphy, The New American:
As the calendar flipped to April this week, consumers in Canada were hit with a steep 23-percent increase in the nation’s carbon tax. The tax, originally instituted in 2018, is aimed at reducing emissions of greenhouse gases, which climate zealots argue are leading to global warming, which creates out-of-control climate change. The federal carbon tax went up to $80/tonne from $65/tonne on Monday.
Consumer anger over the increase boiled over into nationwide protests on Monday. Protesters snarled traffic in several cities, and the RCMP was called in to maintain order. Protesters temporarily blocked the Trans-Canada Highway, which links Nova Scotia and New Brunswick. Protesters nationwide carried signs that read “Axe the tax” and “Trudeau must go.”
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Protesters gather in Ottawa, urging Justin Trudeau to abolish the carbon tax.
“Enough is enough!”
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“We’ve had enough,” Jeff Galbraith, a People’s Party of Canada candidate, said at a rally in British Columbia. “I think we got a lot of frustrated, disillusioned, disheartened, disenfranchised Canadians. A majority of Canadians … they feel they have no voice anymore.”
In New Brunswick, mechanic Samuel Field spoke on behalf of his customers.
“It’s important for me to stand up for them, because I’m there to provide for them,” he said. “I want us all to succeed. It’s not good what’s going on. Our industries are being destroyed, our communities are being destroyed, it’s hurting our families.”
Trudeau countered that Canadian families are set to receive their quarterly rebate checks later this month. Those rebates are also increasing and are heavily weighted toward Canadians with lower incomes so, in a sense, they represent climate-based wealth redistribution.
Prior to the April 1 increase, seven premiers from the provinces — including Canada’s only Liberal Party premier New Foundland’s Andrew Furey — called for Trudeau to halt the proposed increase. In a letter to Trudeau, Furey asked the prime minister to convene an emergency meeting of Canada’s leaders to discuss alternative ways of addressing the so-called climate crisis.
“I therefore call on you to pause the April 1 carbon tax increase until the affordability and infrastructure issues improve,” Furey wrote.
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