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To predict the future of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s carbon tax and his looming clean fuel standard, which is another carbon tax, just look at British Columbia.
B.C. is Canada’s leader in imposing carbon taxes.
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It passed, to widespread praise from the chattering classes, what it boasted was the world’s first revenue neutral carbon tax on fossil fuels in 2007.
It was the model Trudeau borrowed from when he passed his national carbon tax 11 years later in 2018.
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Edmonton is scoring a lower grade for fiscal responsibility than comparable municipalities, according to data from the Alberta government.
New “report cards” released by the province this week show the City of Edmonton has higher spending and debt per capita than the City of Calgary and the Regional Municipality of Wood Buffalo, which are considered comparable based on a calculated municipality index.
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The new report cards, also referred to as the municipal measurement index, don’t give out letter grades, but allow residents to look at the annual financial performance of their region and compare it among the province’s 338 municipalities.
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Our politicians are asking Albertans to make massive sacrifices, but most donât seem willing to make the same sacrifice.
Premier Jason Kenney recently announced that Alberta will be heading into its second lockdown and specifically spoke to those it would hit hardest.
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âI know how devastating todayâs announcement and these measures are for tens of thousands of small business owners who have been coping through an impossibly difficult year, for hundreds of thousands of their employees and so many others who have found themselves without work,â said Kenney.
Pedestrians walk down Stephen Avenue in downtown Calgary. Photo by Bernard Spragg/Flickr
If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again.
That appears to be the Conservative Party of Canada’s attitude towards the federal carbon tax and rebate, which was updated last week with an ambitious schedule of increases that will culminate in a $170-per-tonne carbon price by 2030. Even though they lost last year’s election on the back of a failed attempt to depict the carbon tax as a “job killing” measure, they still refuse to embrace carbon pricing, an idea that originally came from their own ideological ranks.
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