What Matters to You – Selective Carbon Tax for No Measurable Gains

There is no crisis that a levy or a tax can’t fix. In fact, do you know that if you tax people on heating their homes north of the 49th parallel, you, in fact, can even change the weather outside, I mean measurable global impacts!

It’s just a little more complex, however, and as the second largest country on the planet with under 40 million people contributing to less than 1% of carbon output in the world and being in the heart of the boreal forest with all those trees that use CO2 to live, we have recently witnessed an amazing phenomenon.

Yes tax, no tax!

Heating oil, (low grade Diesel Fuel), burnt on the east coast of the country, has zero impact on climate change. However, if you use it, or lower carbon intensive fuels anywhere else in Canada, it has a direct impact on climate change, and of course, those that need to heat their homes in a winter wonderland need to be punished for taking care of their kids.

This is why, in their infinite wisdom, and only after a few months of putting a carbon tax in place for eastern provinces that the NDP liberal coalition have now pulled back that tax, because, well it wasn’t necessary. Now before you start to think this does not make logical sense, and I have to pull out a “How Dare you?” rant or a “Trust the Science” card, I’d like you to consider a few more things.

Good government policies have measurable gains

Here in the boreal forest, our largest form of pollution is forest fires, not heating our homes. We need to get back to logical sense, and I would propose that most nations, if they had the assets that we do, would be looking at doing what we are doing. Using technology to make real measurable impacts on reducing emissions, capturing carbon, using our resources to transition towards hydrogen, all while supplying our larger population trading partners. Alberta, and Canada are not going to fight “Climate Change” by making our citizens go broke chasing waterfalls, or following fancy sock wearing hypocrites who cry out “Crisis and non-believer” every time anyone with a lick of sense questions their policies that have no measurable gains.

Sincerely,

Shane Getson