"If the plan is to convert everything worth converting into goodbye kiss revenues for a sunsetting industry, eventually a petrostate will need greater control of its populace & its democracy. The successful implementation of Bills 20 & 18 are vehicles to that end."
"This government loudly rejects federal authority & is now collapsing the powers of the 2 big municipalities in Alberta that supported them the least in the last election. When we see a centralization of power like this in other countries we start worrying about those countries"
Climate change emerging as biggest caribou threat: study
Habitat loss has long been considered the principle cause for concern
“There are a litany of reasons to do restoration and caribou aren’t the only species on the landscape. I think it behooves society to undo the disturbances we’ve created”
"Bill 20 would also grant the province sweeping powers over municipalities, including the right to fire councillors, overturn bylaws and postpone elections."
For context, Red Deer is about the same size as Barrhaven and growing more slowly.
Whatever happens with #abpoli and #cdnpoli , I don't see it growing to 1M powered by a scheme that involves burning stuff and then pretending to suck CO2 back out off the air by burning even more stuff.
Hopefully Danielle Smith won't opt us out of this one!
"My mother got her Canadian Dental coverage card. It's really real. Our national dental care plan is actually happening. Seniors first and then other age groups added after that. (Actual good news.)"
Reality check:
To be legitimately worried about the impact of an added 3¢ carbon price on you gas, it seems to me it would need to add at least half a percent of your income.
Alberta median household income >$100,000
0.5% of $100,000 = $500
$500 at 3¢/litre = $16,000 worth of fuel
At an inflated average price of $1.50/l
… you bought 11,000 litres of fuel.
You drive enough to use up the tank on an F-150 at least twice a week.
On the one hand, Danielle Smith is timing the re-instatement of the Provincial Fuel Tax at the same time that the Carbon Tax is raised, so she can blame all price increases on the Federal government instead of the Provincial government.
What is most disturbing of all however, is the fact that the CPC and the UCP are constantly telling us that multi-billion dollar oil corporations should not pay their own taxes, but should pass the buck to us and make us consumers pay their taxes for them!! /1
I'm sick and tired of this gaslighting and spin about fuel taxes. Taking away OUR PUBLIC REVENUE is not "saving us money at the pumps". These taxes should take back what is owed to US, the people. Make the 'ing corporations pay their own share out of their own multi-billion dollar PROFITS! Stop letting oil-simping Conservative politicians gaslight people into thinking that we should be paying higher prices because the fuel is taxed!
And of course, we even get to pay for the millions of dollars spent on disinformation campaigns to gaslight us into accepting higher prices at the pump to pay the taxes on behalf of multi-billion dollar oil corporations who don't want to take those taxes out of their multi-billion dollar profits.
ie, remember EVERY SINGLE ALBERTAN receiving pamphlets in their mail to tell us that "we" just saved 13 cents/litre in gas thanks to the UCP, and claiming that each household has now saved hundreds of dollars a month? Not the oil corporations, who actually saved the money that was supposed to be used for us, but "we" saved money at the pump, according to the disinformation WE paid for.
TL;DR Increase profit and wealth tax, decrease worker's income tax.
This is the right way, and this is the path all progressive governments in North America have been moving towards, and what every regressive Conservative government has been fighting against. Most notably the CPC and their "Axe the Tax" campaign.
@micropainter Both these taxes are positive and needs to happen, and there needs to be regulation on these multi-billion dollar corporations to stop them from "passing the buck" to consumers, with the Conservative Party of Canada telling everybody that this is the way it's supposed to be. The CPC and UCP are telling us that they're not supposed to pay their taxes, WE'RE supposed to pay it for them!! THAT is what we need to fight against, not taxation. Make them pay their share! #abpoli#cdnpoli