Guilbeault Must Testify On His Plan To Create Global Carbon Tax
Ottawa, ON – Yesterday, Canadians discovered that Justin Trudeau’s radical Environment Minister, Steven Guilbeault, wants to create a new global carbon tax on international shipping. This tax money would then be sent abroad to other countries.
For this reason, Common Sense Conservatives are calling on Minister Guilbeault to testify before a House of Commons’ Committee on this new carbon tax that will make everything more expensive. According to the Association of Canadian Port Authorities, Canada’s ports are responsible for $17 billion of economic output. The marine sector is responsible for 353,760 Canadian jobs. This new tax on maritime transportation would undoubtedly drive investment and business away from our already struggling port system, putting strong union jobs at risk.
On top of this, a tax on shipping is a tax on the goods that are being shipped. At a time when 2 million people are using food banks every month, Canadians can’t afford another failed Liberal tax grab. The carbon tax is nothing more than an expensive scam. It has done nothing to reduce emissions, while dramatically increasing the cost of living on the backs of working Canadians.
The Parliamentary Budget Officer has already confirmed that Canadians suffer a “net cost” from Trudeau’s current carbon tax, with Canadians paying far more in taxes than they will ever receive in rebates. In fact, the NDP-Liberal tax will cost the average person $652 in Newfoundland and Labrador, $575 in PEI, $580 in Nova Scotia, $457 in New Brunswick, $903 in Ontario, $693 in Manitoba, $894 in Saskatchewan, and $697 in Alberta.
This corroborates the NDP-Liberal Government’s own data, which they tried to hide from Canadians, showing that the carbon tax will cost the Canadian economy $30.5 billion per year by 2030.
The carbon tax also hikes up the cost of gas, groceries and heating at the worst possible time. But instead of giving Canadians the relief they deserve, Trudeau decided to hike his carbon tax by 23 percent last spring, as part of his plan to quadruple the carbon tax by 2030.
Only Common Sense Conservatives will axe Justin Trudeau’s job-killing carbon tax and bring home powerful paycheques for Canadians.