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Originally Posted by Travis Munroe
And the carbon tax thing can be fought... and will be fought. You have half of Canada binding together to go at this thing. As I explained yesterday, we will have someone at the adults table who wants to fight it in the UCP. Under the NDP we can just sling dirt back and forth with BC making no difference.
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Read up on what is actually being fought. Then you'll see it's pretty much grandstanding.
No one is arguing that the federal government can't implement a carbon tax. What they can't do is allow provinces to come up with their own carbon tax that must be approved individually by the feds. So if all those fighting the carbon tax win, they're just giving up what little control they have on the carbon tax.
It's a bit more nuisance but if the federal government scrapped the current carbon tax altogether today, they could have a new carbon tax implemented equally across the board where the money goes straight to the federal government tomorrow and there's nothing that could prevent it.
If there's ever been a case of cutting your nose to spite the face, this lawsuit is it.
But yeah, let's spend millions fighting the government so we can be stuck with the same tax but not be allowed to control where the money goes. Great idea!