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Originally Posted by Fuzz
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Estimates aren’t facts.
This is also from the article you posted.
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“It’s very difficult to assess how the carbon tax is impacting food prices,” Charlebois said. Consumers have a huge influence and everything from the weather to people’s moods and time of day can affect prices. “We just don’t know. The work that was actually published in Canada is mediocre at best so far. So, we need to do a better job.”
Charlebois said that for businesses, the carbon tax has made their expenses go up. Throughout the food chain, he said, there’s a “compounding effect,” as links in the supply chain are exposed to increased costs due, in part, to the carbon tax.
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From an opinion column;
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Bank of Canada Governor Tiff Macklem tried to tell Canadians that the carbon tax only added to inflation at a rate of 0.15%.
That didn’t seem right and so Sylvain Charlebois, the Food Professor, asked the Bank for an explanation of how they arrived at that level. The answer is the Bank only calculates the impact of the tax on gas, heating oil and natural gas, they don’t look at its impact on other products or how it impacts prices as it is passed on through the supply chain to consumers.
That makes the 0.15% a false claim, one you shouldn’t believe.
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https://canoe.com/opinion/columnists...6-9da68c1722d9
I’m not sure how I can be misinformed if the experts aren’t looking at the whole big picture.
I mean, you can drill down to everything from food packaging, cardboards, plastics suppliers, the operations and transportation of the goods that are used on so many levels that it is impossible to know.