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Originally Posted by Firebot

Thanks for the answer and changing your view somewhat, but I feel you are still dodging that the Liberals heavily defended their policies multiple times this year (as I posted in my prior post) despite all evidence of impact and outcries...until it hit their poll so bad they are are risk of a landslide loss. This was not Liberals getting an epiphany about carbon taxes hurting folks too much let's be honest.

Heat pumps is not a carbon efficient solution in itself when in Nova Scotia most of their electricity is still powered by coal (which also has a heavy carbon tax on it). Replacing all this coal power to renewable sources is an expensive task and the cost of this electricity may be even higher. So they will still get hit with carbon tax and higher prices once they go to heating pumps.

Home heating oil is an easy target because it's much more prevalent in Atlantic Canada and the hit is immediately noticeable after the Liberal government told Newfoundland and Labrador, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and PEI to suck it and forced the removal of the provinces' exemptions on home heating oil.

Would you say, that by the Liberals doing this exemption (exemptions that the provinces previously had in place prior to Liberal forcing the matter), that they should review all carbon tax and pause / cancel other aspects that are overly punitive to other jurisdictions? Because they just opened this can of worms.

What incentive would someone have to switch from heating oil to heat pumps when they will pay less over 3 years now as a result of the exemption? See where this falls apart? Well here comes the free heat pumps to Atlantic Canadians! A heat pump installation can cost 5000$ to 15000$ (and you can be sure Liberals will spend more through administration). That's awfully nice of you as an Albertan to provide your taxpayer money to Atlantic Canada so they can get free heat pumps while you continue to pay carbon tax while having less of a carbon footprint.

I just want to see how you will still attempt to spin this somehow.

I'm not spinning anything.

Liberals are realizing the hurt will be too much(particularly for their election prospects).

How is that not acknowledging they are doing this for fear of losing seats? Do I need to put it on a bumper sticker? Agreeing more with GGG now, this undermines everything.