Above freezing temperatures and rain this week. In December. In Canada.
Sounds like spring.
Or Global Warming.
Wouldn’t it be awesome to have a government clever enough to engage in #ClimateAction? Instead, ours showered more than a billion dollars–
Canadian tax dollars, by the way– on Fossil Fuel Companies.
Not the workers.
The lions share of Canada’s revenue comes from Income tax. I think its been over half a century since Canada’s corporate tax income was about even with personal income tax. And, of course, truly rich Canadians are more likely to hide their wealth than pay tax on it. And the biggest richest corporations are more likely to suck subsidies out of our government than actually pay in.
It’s never the ordinary people who get enormous gifts from the government; it’s the ordinary people who pay the tax they owe.
So now Mr Trudeau’s Government has succeeded in angering:
Albertan fossil fuel workers, who would rather get a new pipeline.
The Fossil Fuel Companies, who would rather get a new pipeline.
Fossil Fuel Company investors, who would rather get a new pipeline.
And all the Canadians who understand Climate Change is an existential threat.
This after kicking all the strategic voters who voted for real electoral reform.
Its starting to look more and more like Mr Trudeau is going to be a 1 term PM.