• SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca
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      2 months ago

      He actually has a point. Turdeau was great at making bullshit policies and regulations that were entirely impotent on goals.

      Carbon tax just became pay to burn.

      But Carney doing fuck all is not an alternative.

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        2 months ago

        To be fair Trudeau also put caps on extraction.

        Carbon Taxes will never work without a parallel system to reward cutting carbon though. You can’t just tax the externality without adding incentives on the other side of the equation. Unfortunately most people hate the idea of a Carbon Coin.

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    2 months ago

    The sad thing is that Canada’s climate actions are rated ‘highly insufficient’, very much as China’s, and only slightly better than the U.S., while no country is on track to meet the Paris goal … [Source]