Is the Carbon Tax ACTUALLY Reducing Emissions?
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- čas přidán 17. 04. 2024
- It sure looks like Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has lost public support for his carbon tax. A lot of that is politics, a lot of it has to do with the affordability crisis. But is the carbon tax actually working? Have emissions dropped in Canada as a result? University of Ottawa economist Nic Rivers digs into the numbers.
Co2 isn’t a problem and we need to stop the narrative that it is
I want to live on the world you live in. But alas....
That's great news. Scientists the world over have said it is. Good thing we have an expert like you to set them straight.
@daveknight4601 I cant wait till the scientist admit the world is a disc resting on the backs of four great elephants and the elephants ride on the back of a giant space turtle. Flat earthers only know half the story
It’s a cash grab and NOTHING ELSE!
No. A tax doesn’t reduce emissions. It does however make citizens poorer. That makes them easier to control which is the ultimate goal.
Funny the tax on cigarettes seems to have drastically reduced smoking.
@@fpp2024 really ? Where ?
Carbon taxeS are small minded and all impoverishing for a "possible" 1.4% reduction after 10 years of misery, deprivations and malnutrition amongst the lower half of Canadians. We could reduce world carbon by 20+% IMMEDIATELY by supplying LNG to allies, friends and foes to get them off coal. Might even make a buck doing it, stop this constant printing and borrowing and eliminate the carbon taxeS entirely.
First step is to vote out the absolute economic imbecile (and true prick of an Allie) who says there's no business plan for it. He'd rather have 2 million Canadians , many of them children attending food banks, suffering malnutrition....in a G7 country!
We have enough forest to offset our carbon. Other counties should be paying us for helping absorb thier carbon just like the president of Guyana stated to the BBC presstitute
Crickets👂, nobody ever argues that point 🤷♂️
318B trees in Canada x 45 lbs of CO2 per tree absored
600M tons of CO2 emmissions in Canada
Some simple math says we are carbon neutral
@@kirkmiller9852 you are 100% correct .
It's not meant to reduce emissions. It's meant to be a wealth transfer.
@Michael-to8qdconservatives were forced to choose between cap and trade or the carbon dioxide tax.
Most conservatives don't believe in the UN climate hoax.
Bingo and the province to gain the most is Quebec they pay nothing and receive payment
@Michael-to8qd how is that a conservative concept?
It is also about increasing government tax revenue. The revenue from the carbon tax itself is required by law to be returned to households and businesses through rebates and granting programs.
But that does not apply to the sales tax, which is collected on top of the carbon tax.
The PBO estimates that will be worth about $600 million in 2024-25, rising to $1 billion a year by 2030-31 in parallel with increases to the carbon tax itself.
In total, that could amount to $5.7 billion between the beginning of this April and the end of March 2031.
Modeling works really good when you WANT it to ... so I call BS.
I wanted to buy an electric truck but I havent been able to save up enough due to the Carbon Tax!!!!!
The average price of an EV is $78,000 plus tax in Canada. The cheapest EV is $45,000 plus tax. A Ford EV truck worth around $90,000. No one is buying them because they don't work well and people can't afford them.
why of course it is trudeau the expert says so
Stop calling it a "carbon price". It's a tax.
Wealth transfer to the Ukraine. That's where our money is going .
It's not really going to Ukraine. It's going to the military industrial complex (weapons manufacturers) and companies like Blackrock, who finance reconstruction projects. Just look at the Afghanistan/Iraq war, who got wealthy? Follow the money all the way. Yes many siphon off along the way, but there is a reason why the US, through the CIA, causes so much chaos in resource rich nations. It's not about benefitting US citizens or even the government. It's about benefitting those elites who really run things. All the rest is propaganda, AKA "The Narrative".
Great explanation.
Here's an analogy for cap&trade: i live in a village next to a river and crap in that river every morning. my neighbour has indoor plumbing so he can use his washroom at home. i pay him $5 to not crap in the river and say i've reduced the amount of crap in the river.
Here's an analogy for carbon taxes: i crap in the same river, but the government says "you have to pay us $5/month if you want to keep crapping in the river". I ask them, "ok, can I renovate my house to get indoor plumbing?" they say "sure, pay us $400 for the permit and it'll take us 2 years to review it before we allow you to do that"
Makes me wonder, is the "carbon tax" doing anything different than an equal amount of tax taken from us another way....meaning it's just a messure that is killing the economy.....at tax is a tax is a tax why does it matter what you call it. Call it a Justin/Chrystia retirement tax if you like!!
What did the data say about emissions reductions from the Covid shutdowns? If the emissions data barely moved when our economy was shut down does it seem reasonable to assume we will achieve the same degree by taxation???
All this big talk on the Canadian environment and carbon taxes. There is really nothing wrong with the Canadian environment. Canada is not a major world GHG emissions country at 1.5% of world GHG emissions. Canada now has the second highest carbon taxes in the world.
-China contributes 29.16 % of world emissions, a carbon tax of $10 per ton of GHG emissions
-The USA contributes 11.18% of world GHG emissions. The US has no national carbon tax, and only 6 US States have a carbon pricing scheme.
-India produces 7.3% of world GHG emissions, and a carbon tax of $2 per ton of GHG emissions.
-Canada contributes 1.5% of world Global GHG emissions. Carbon tax is $80 per ton of GHG emissions and will rise to $170 per ton by 2030. That's nuts!
Other countries focus on their economies, in Canada we have a government focused on climate change and climate crisis? Every 5 minutes a car is stolen in Canada? What is Mr.Fancy Socks doing about it? Free better drugs to drug addicts? Great plan.How about drug treatment to get these people off drugs? Housing and rents are soaring. Just maybe too much immigration too fast?Working families going to food banks? Look we built a pipeline. Good idea, but did it have to be built at $25billion over budget. Ever heard about project management?
Frankly, Canada needs a government that is focused on items like I mentioned and not running around screaming about climate change & climate crisis all the time.
Why do you think the conservatives lost 3 elections in a row? A big part of it was their lack of a plan to deal with climate change. If you disagree that's fine but the vast majority want action on it. Whether that involves a carbon tax or not is another question.
@@fpp2024 Well the Liberals will not be winning the next election. By the way, the Conservatives won the popular vote in the last election. The Conservatives now have a leader that resonates with Canadians.
It's not just the carbon tax. It is the lack of fiscal management skills within the Liberal Party. The micro-management of the Liberals when it comes to provincial governments.The lack of project management skills. The Liberals just do not have the people who can manage the Canadian government.
Alas, we compete against all those over countries that do not have a carbon tax and hence are more productive. We all know what happened to the martyrs who were fed to the lions.
Yes, we used to be 18 tonnes of GHG per Capita early 2000s, we are 14;today at present
Per capita isn’t the metric that is propaganda. The ONLY reason the climate cult uses that because it amplifies their numbers. If you use the real numbers that yes come from the per capita but til equates to 1.4% lol. This guy is a clown and continues the carbon tax lie!
Need carbon because the earth lives on carbon as people do everything is made of carbon
We need some carbon, but currently it’s increasing year after year. The effects are visible
NO NO NO
NO
It's easy, are less fossil fuels being used?
If not then it's not working
How can something so complex as human behaviour be assessed as any or all of consequential, coincidental, simultaneous or causal?
Only a fool or an activist might be sure of the answer long before the many questions are tabled, discussed and understood.
But, at a time when “answers” may not be “questioned”, I guess we are out of luck.
So why do we spend all this money on bogus science
The total carbon emissions here in Canada is only 0,04 % of the global emissions of carbon in Canada we have 2-3 billions trees who eliminated 45 pounds of carbon each yearly witch is 13 times our emissions , so why should we have to pay a carbon tax when Mother Nature take care of it for free
Tax on tax on tax
Just like liberals one on top the other on top the other lining their pockets😂
Taxing the consumer DOES NOT change behaviour. Change to what? Take public transit and get stabbed?? Or buy an EV for $60,000?? Great choices.
the landlord for example pays the gas bill therefore the tenant doesn't give a shit how high the heats turned up, in fact most people are far too entitled to drive less, eat less, use a blanket etc. etc. so zero positive effect on the environment is occurring, all the while fire up the private jets fly around the world and in your travels head to india or china where they pollute whatever they want at zero financial cost whatsoever , canadians pay this tax while the rest of the world pays nothing and we are a clean country to begin with
we all live on one planet
Instead of carbon tax, fund for forest fires .
This what I appreciate about Real Talk each and every day: knowledgable guests providing their perspective on current issues and welcoming the challenges from Ryan and the Real Talkers....quality content here!
This so called guest is a liberal shill. The carbon tax continues to show that everything is touched by it and MAKES everything more expensive. This tax is cruel and continues to punish ALL Canadians trying to get by! Without out alternatives an don’t even mention heat pumps, this is just punitive in nature!
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This is absolutely a useless interview!...
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Carbon tax like the interview B.S
I guess we are talking about it. Personally, I am more aware and trying to drive less. Parked the car for two months. Ut I can work from home. Walked more. Planned errands and and outings to be more productive. Each of us must try better.
People are definitely wasteful. I live in rural Alberta. I am waiting for a high-speed rail to be built with all this carbon tax money so I don't have to drive 50 km a day for work but so far I see no building. Instead of taxing people to survive they need to tax luxuries like flying, new vehicle purchases recreational toys like boats , and snow mobiles etc.
@@ROGZI3LI like your thinking, not taxing people trying to survive,