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Originally Posted by unit
the carbon tax can't win.. the conservatives have already succeeded in making it the biggest election issue and there's nothing the liberals can do but to watch it all get undone once they lose the election. the rebates only apply to those who make a hair over minimum wage, and the revenue collected doesn't even go into carbon initiatives, it just goes into general revenue. they can't even spin it in any way to make it popular, it's done unless the liberals pull off a miracle election win.
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Turd has nobody but himself to blame for the downfall of the carbon tax. It was an unpopular tax to begin with, but at least it was something the greener people could get behind / bear for the sake of doing
something, since the Cons were drawing a complete blank on the environment / carbon footprint reduction front. But then Turd has somehow thought it was a good idea to give the Atlantic provinces a 3 year break on carbon tax for heating oil. That started the precedence of making an exemption out of their own signature climate policy, and *everyone* started crying foul because Turd was playing favourites (where mostly only the Atlantic provinces use heating oil, and Atlantic Canada just happens to have strong Liberals support).
Alberta started crying even louder against the carbon tax, and Saskatchewan openly announced that they will violate federal law and not collect (and not remit) carbon tax, and all hell broke loose.