Not Noticing France, Trudeau Pushes Ahead with Greedy Envirotyranny

Justin Trudeau apparently learned nothing from the humiliating setback suffered by his fellow elitist climate poseur Emmanuel Macron; let’s hope Canadians learned something from the Gilets Jaunes.

As France literally burns from weeks-long protesting over French President Emmanuel Macron’s now-abandoned fuel tax, Trudeau is sticking to his Climate Change initiative, which conservative critics say is already crippling Canadian businesses and squeezing the middle class.

Under Trudeau’s plan, according to The Washington Times, a national price on carbon emissions of $7.5 a ton will be increased to $37.50 by 2022. By April, a carbon tax will be implemented across the nation, despite fiery opposition from at least four provinces.

Canada’s Minister of the Environment and Climate Change Katherine McKenna barks that the tax is justified on the grounds that carbon dioxide — an essential element of the atmosphere that makes the crops grow and that is a byproduct of all productive activity — is now a pollutant according to leftist dogma. Higher taxes will mean less of the productive activity that results in this harmless “pollutant.”

According to politically driven global warming theory, this will result in colder weather. Just what they need up there.

Already Trudeau is trying to mollify Canadians:

As reported by The New York Times, Trudeau’s government, looking to quell preemptive outrage, says they’ll “rebate the money it collects, much of it from industry rather than individuals, to taxpayers.”

Don’t worry, Canadians. The money will be confiscated from other Canadians, not you.

Trudeau is gambling that a significant percentage of the population does not understand that taxing an industry actually means taxing everyone who uses the product of that industry.

This tyrannical idiocy will have economic consequences. In turn, it ought to have political consequences, as in France.

On a tip from ABC of the ANC.

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