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Perhaps you misunderstood what I was saying. Any - and I repeat any attempt to reduce our carbon emissions by a meaningful amount in the next 12 years is pure folly.......and the IPCC "scare the bejesus out of everyone" target of reducing global emissions in half by 2030 is - as I said - insanity from the minds of lunatics. Carbon taxes, Cap & Trace, Carbon dividends - they are all useless in the context of what I presented in the topic.

And Trudeau's carbon tax, which focuses on taxing Canadian consumers, fixes this problem how? Reportedly, the 100 largest polluters in Canada are responsible for 71 percent of this country's emissions but many of them, and particularly those that rely on export markets, will be given exemptions under Trudeau's plan. So, his scheme, which seems intended to pick Canadians' pockets, won't have much if any impact on emissions that result from consumption elsewhere. From a climate change perspective, it's smoke and mirrors mixed with a little redistributive ideology, which as I said previously in this string is a Liberal favorite. Or, as Thomas Walkom put it in his column in today's Toronto Star, the tax and rebate scheme "...isn't exactly a sleight of hard. But it's close."

How about some links, or even one. Without any reference you're just spouting hot air. For instance I know for a fact that he's not rolling back a single penny of wages, but you go ahead and show where he's cutting wages. I'll wait for you to post proof of these wage cuts that you claim.

I would suggest you might be under a heavy dose of good ole american sarcasm. The phrase, "whatever it takes to get our friends to the north to like us" just screams out we don't really care. Personally, if Canada weren't around it'd be a pain to learn Spanish just so I can find another source of endless entertainment.

No politician is going to take money out of one of your pockets and put the same amount back into your other pocket. If it was true why take it to begin with? Politicians lie, it's that simple. and anyone who believes a politician is as bright as a bag of hammers

Perfect...the "order" that Canada wants the USA to protect so much included Saudi Arabia and oil exports to the world.

I know....Canada's smug "moral authority" only goes so far...which isn't very far at all in this case given the number of LAVs still going from Ontario to Saudi Arabia. Your foreign minister is still begging the USA to carry the post WW2 burden...because Canada can't/won't.

Cite them. 70% are immigrants from the third world, and a large proportion of the remainder are very young. Yeah but when most of those people came over here their homeland's skill and education level was not dissimilar to that which existed in Canada today. Meanwhile, our requirement for education and skills is far, far, far higher today than that of the general body of citizenry in the third world.

...is a statistic. ---Joe Stalin

Of course...they would just find something else to bitch about, especially Canada (because there would be no more American TV to watch).