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There are no economic wizards in that party. They are economically illiterate too. Again, there is no magic point where people go from no having no response to CO2 emission taxes to suddenly having a large response to CO2 emission taxes. There are a variety of ways to reduce emissions (using a more fuel efficient vehicle, driving less, using public transport, insulating your home, eating less meat, etc.) and people respond to prices. The fact that taxes on CO2 emissions leads to a reduction in CO2 emissions has been confirmed empirically by various econometric studies. They are going to replace the burning of coal with coal? And coal produces more greenhouse gasses than coal? Is this a typo? You can use revenue generated from a tax on CO2 emissions to lower other taxes such as corporate taxes. Alternatively, you could use the revenue from a CO2 emission tax to fund a universal basic income. Take your pick at what you want. Either way, the government needs to generate tax revenue, so there is always the question of how the government should collect tax revenue, since different taxes will have different incentives. A tax on CO2 emissions incentivizes the reduction in CO2 emissions. Political parties have been elected over the past few decades all around the world on platforms on taxing CO2. Europe, Australia, Chile, British Columbia, etc. It is very possible for a party to win elections on a platform of wanting to tax CO2 emissions. It's almost like there was recently a federal election in Canada, where the party that ended up forming government ran on a platform of taxing CO2 emissions... There are alternative fuels to other types of fuels. But I don't really know what you mean by an alternative to fuel... You don't understand... Harberger's triangle is a triangle of deadweight loss / harm to society. The point is to minimize the area of the triangle, or rather to minimize the sum of the area of multiple triangles such as by having broad based taxes.

O’Toole is a calming figure. In his appearances on the CBC’s Power and Politics, I never saw him lose his cool with his opposite numbers. He’s also got an average guy vibe. After Trudeau, I suspect we’ll be shopping for something less flashy.

Because the process is different to obtain an absentee ballot. Do you guys pretend to be obtuse?

That’s because there’s plenty of time to vote in the day. Before work or after work. But most businesses allow people time to vote regardless. It really shouldn’t effect Biden voters though, since they don’t have jobs, they’ll just have to take some time off from burning stuff.

Twenty States have no mandated time off work to vote, paid or unpaid. So its very possible that people can't get time off work to vote.

What are you talking about, Trump is obviously to blame for the hurricane! He’s blamed for everything else!

The same NBA players who refused to say anything about China and its human rights record, including concentration camps, now want to go on strike because a Black criminal was shot by a cop.

Exactly. The problem is that states don't clean up their voter rolls very often, and very well. Especially since doing so gets cries of voter suppression from the Democrats. So voter rolls contain many deceased peoples, people that have moved, people that have changed names, gotten married and are listed in both their maiden names and married names, etc. But the biggest obstacle to mail in voting is that most states aren't set up to handle that kind of volume yet. Perhaps 4 years from now, but not now. Anyone advocating for mostly mail in voting for this election is advocating from complete chaos, with weeks and weeks of counting, lawsuits, examining rejected ballots etc. Because mail in ballots have significantly higher rejection rates than in person ones. But all that doesn't matter because orange man bad!

Long time lurker, posting first time as driven by my need to address a perceived problem with the narrative. Am I expected to believe that any data regarding infection rates or deaths is somehow sacrosanct; immune to the laws of probability and margin of error? Seems to me we have no hard empirical evidence of rates of infection .. Population testing samples are quite small, and seemingly the basis for some creative extrapolative modelling. Modelling that to this date has been proven to be absolutely jaw-droppingly wrong. We have what, a 10% tested population ? With a virus that is chimeric, proven to have already mutated, and paired with a test failure rate that provides no surety of any accuracy? I would think that any claims of knowing real infection rate or actual mortality are suspect pending a much more complete testing regimen. We simply can't know given our current coverage. The margins of error are gigantic. Not quite as gigantic as the current hysteria and resulting opportunistic attempts at control, but in the same ballpark. Perhaps a more prudent discussion would be that it isn't whether or not attempts at totalitarian levels of control have occurred, they demonstrably have, but whether or not those attempts are justified in the name of public health. "It's for your own good." - Every tinpot dictator ever.

First, it was BC resident Jonathan "Jessica" Yaniv that has been gaming the system. Now, a 28 year old man has filed a Human Rights complaint with the Province of Alberta, since he claims he was discriminated against due to his age and sex, when he answered an ad posted by a single Dad wanting a babysitter. The complainant, has previously taken citizens to the Human Rights Tribunal for the exact same thing, and lost. Keep in mind, the tab of the complainant is picked up by the Human Rights Tribunal, so it's a no lose situation! Todd said in an email he doesn’t want to speculate on possible motives but was thankful for the help after he reached out to the JCCF. “There have been many sleepless nights,” he said on Tuesday. “I did not realize that people could object to me finding out all the relevant information I can about a potential babysitter, including their age and sex. I thought I was doing what was best for my young children.” Todd, who is self-employed, said while he rarely uses babysitters, he’s reluctant to try again because of this experience. “Just trying to learn enough about a potential new babysitter can get me in trouble and I need to ensure that my children are safe,” he added. In the complaint, dated Sept. 1, 2017, Cyrynowski said he received a message 10 minutes after applying to the job posting asking for his age and gender. “I told him I’m male and 28 years old,” he wrote. “I never heard back from him since.” This is not the first time Cyrynowski has filed a human rights complaint. A similar case dating back to May 23, 2014, involved a mother posting an ad for a babysitter for her five-year-old son. Court documents show her ad listed a preference for an older woman with experience to look after her son. When Cyrynowski replied to the ad, he was told that she was looking for a female. Cyrynowski filed his complaint a few days later on May 26. The court case went all the way up to the Supreme Court of Canada where it was ultimately dismissed in May this year. https://edmontonjournal.com/news/local-news/babysitter-files-human-rights-complaint-against-edmonton-area-father

If I had my way all the HRC outfits would be gone from every province in Canada. As long as those communist outfits are allowed to exist freedom of expression will always be attacked by these SJW's and in real danger. The only reason why provinces keep them around is because they can use them to throttle their opponents or anyone who dares to criticize or challenge their political correctness laws without having to taking them to a real court of law where they may lose their case. Why there are two court systems running alongside each other is beyond me. The one that needs to go here is the HRC. These frivolous HRC court cases like the one mentioned above are so bloody ridiculous, and they are costing the taxpayer's of Canada hundreds of millions, if not billions, of their tax dollars every year to keep these HRC commie outfits up and running. They all need to be abolished now. Save taxpayer's their tax dollars and their freedom of expression. Why not? Works well for me.

Most cases brought before the Human Rights tribunal are not newsworthy. This case has made the news, since the complainant is gaming the system for a easy payout.

That may be true, but just like the Yaniv case, where do we draw the line? I can see this being an issue if it was working at a summer camp, organized sports coaching, or even working at a day care. The problem with this case is: 1. The man put out an ad in kijiji looking for a babysitter. The 28 year old replies and states his age and gender. The father does not say "no I am looking for a woman under 25." He does not bother to respond. Regardless, the 28 year old takes the father to the Human Rights Tribunal, which coincidentally cover a complainant's legal fees, unlike real courts. 2. The 28 year old has tried this before, after losing a different babysitting case a few years back, appealing it all the way to the Supreme Court, which upheld the Tribunals decision. 3. Judging by the complainant's social media accounts, it looks like he has a history of nuisance lawsuits, and may be in danger of being declared a "vexatious litigant."

To be fair, there is a lot of sexism against men when it comes to hiring babysitters.

They need to be at least amended so that the defendant is provided with a lawyer, it's not fair or equal that the HR tribunal pays the tab for the complainant, which leads to frivolous complaints.

O'Toole would have to start raping babies for me not to vote for him.