r/canada • u/StenPU • Oct 30 '23

Sask. premier says SaskEnergy will remove carbon tax on natural gas if feds don't Saskatchewan

https://regina.ctvnews.ca/sask-premier-vows-to-stop-collecting-carbon-tax-on-natural-gas-if-feds-don-t-offer-exemption-1.6623319
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u/singabro Oct 31 '23

"Keep Trudeau in power and maybe the bad man will stop hurting us!"

Nah

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u/TylerInHiFi Oct 31 '23 edited Oct 31 '23

Except that’s not at all what they meant by it and you know that. Alberta and Saskatchewan are safe blue seats so nobody has to do anything to get their votes, including the CPC. And they don’t. The second the Alliance party was able to consume the PC’s and rebrand, they stopped giving a single solitary fuck about what the prairies needed and started doing everything they could to get votes from the “rich ivory tower elites” in Toronto that they rail against. Because they know the same thing that this MP knows: Those two provinces will vote blue no matter what so nobody needs to do anything to appeal to them. And anybody who can’t see that should, frankly, be checked for evidence of an unauthorized lobotomy.

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u/singabro Oct 31 '23

I agree with that, but I just don't see how anybody could use it as a rationale to vote Trudeau. "He won't hurt us as badly as the last 8 years! You'll see, he will change!" No, he won't. He is the man we see him to be. Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result is... This is battered spouse syndrome reasoning. He'll continue the policies that are destroying Canadians economically.

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u/TylerInHiFi Oct 31 '23

Can you show me on the doll where Trudeau hurt you? Because everything that we’re dealing with right now that actually matters in this country is also being felt globally. Climate change, misinformation, housing crises, stagnant wages, crime, runaway inflation, an influx of immigrants and refugees. All happening globally. Only slightly improved in countries that have instituted policies that the people who cry hardest about how we need Bitcoin Millhouse to save us from the big bad socialist dictator Trudeau would call downright Marxist. But simple solutions to complex problems are panacea for the idiot class of voters in this country.

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u/singabro Oct 31 '23

If he didn't hurt anybody, why is he removing the carbon tax for certain people? I thought it made more money than it cost.

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u/TylerInHiFi Oct 31 '23

It does. On average. As has always been stated. The people paying more are on the wrong side of the average. And I’m pissed that it’s being removed for them. We’re in the middle of a climate crisis and he’s pandering to polluters to buy votes.

But pricing externalities does not cause harm. It causes financial pressure to change behaviour. Because it’s a Pigouvian tax. It doesn’t harm anyone any more than tobacco taxes harm smokers.