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Leeman4Gilmour · 01-04-2023, 01:44 PM

This Just Transition legislation is political fluff costing tax payers billions of dollars. An example from the position paper;

"Canada is investing $4.4 billion to help more than 200,000 Canadians make their homes greener and more affordable by lowering energy bills"

Sounds Jim Dandy. That works out to $22,000 for a lucky 200,000 people. There's over 14 million homes in Canada. I mean how does the government, how would anyone, calculate that spending $22,000 on 1% of the homes in Canada make any kind of difference. Just big numbers thrown out to make the electorate ooooo and ahhhh.

Here's the position paper;

https://www.rncanengagenrcan.ca/site..._-_july_15.pdf

It's fluff with big numbers and no basis. I get it, it's a position paper, but if you're going to throw out billions of dollars in estimates you should have a basis for that. That's a non-partisan rant against all politicians.

01-04-2023, 01:44 PM	#3913
Leeman4Gilmour First Line Centre Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: Normally, my desk Exp:	This Just Transition legislation is political fluff costing tax payers billions of dollars. An example from the position paper; "Canada is investing $4.4 billion to help more than 200,000 Canadians make their homes greener and more affordable by lowering energy bills" Sounds Jim Dandy. That works out to $22,000 for a lucky 200,000 people. There's over 14 million homes in Canada. I mean how does the government, how would anyone, calculate that spending $22,000 on 1% of the homes in Canada make any kind of difference. Just big numbers thrown out to make the electorate ooooo and ahhhh. Here's the position paper; https://www.rncanengagenrcan.ca/site..._-_july_15.pdf It's fluff with big numbers and no basis. I get it, it's a position paper, but if you're going to throw out billions of dollars in estimates you should have a basis for that. That's a non-partisan rant against all politicians.