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Old 03-26-2025, 11:49 AM   #23011
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Axe the tax seems to have been the correct move which the conservatives having been calling for over many years. They opposed the annual increases and they wanted the carbon tax gone. The Liberals have finally taken that advice and adolished the carbon tax and even environmental activists like Guilbeault are on board with that decision. Also, BC NDP followed up with their own plan to axe the tax.
Except it wasn't; not how the CPC and PP imagined it, anyway, as I explained earlier in the thread:
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You'd definitely find some people criticizing a wholesale removal of the carbon tax, which is a polarizing topic to be sure... but what Carney did was not a wholesale removal -- just the removal of the consumer portion (thankfully, as the industrial carbon tax is necessary to keep foreign trade with the EU intact).
If you 'axe the tax' the way PP wants, you can kiss our trade relationships with the EU goodbye.
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Typical dumb take.
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