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Originally Posted by GioforPM
There's been no proposal better than carbon taxes to do this. "Trust industry" is not a viable climate plan. And climate is a huge and ignored issue.
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Could not disagree more. All carbon taxes do is hurt Canada's industry and Canadians.
Reducing emissions is a global game. Just because as a country, we reduce emissions, that doesn't mean we're a global leader, and the fact that it happens at the expense of Canadians is even worse.
Canada has an extreme abundance of natural gas resources that we could be exporting to countries like China in the form of LNG, helping to reduce their dependence on coal, which they are still building an abundance of. If you open the scope of reduction emissions worldwide, it could be a win win for Canada where we get to develop our resources, which helps Canadians prosper, and also help reduce global emissions. If I was in the federal government, I would be doing everything I could to reduce the red tape required for LNG projects.
The problem is that the current administration has blinders on where all that matters is reducing Canadian emissions, which an incredibly stupid thing to do when your economy depends on resource extraction.