When the details are released, Ottawa will push the green recovery and jobs angle, claiming winners will include farmers and others who create biofuels, while the prospect of processing new low carbon alternative fuels will attract foreign direct investment.This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below.The government likes to say the fuel standard is complementary to the carbon tax.
The cost implications for households and industry are unclear but a study by the Canadian Energy Research Institute in May 2019 estimated the impact of a 20 per cent reduction in carbon intensity. CERI suggested a total fuel decarbonisation cost of $15.3 billion a year, adding $84 or four per cent to household fuel bills; $62 or 2.8 per cent to the cost of gas; and 13 per cent to fuel costs for industry.
Wilkinson is said to have requested an internal study to find out the break point – the price that would be required for people to turn away from fossil fuels.Photo by John Lappa/Postmedia Network The clean fuel standard is not a new idea – California and British Columbia have had regimes in place since 2009. Advocates point out that in both jurisdictions the carbon intensity of fuel was reduced and the renewable content increased. Critics point out that the cost of gas also increased and total emissions did not go down because of economic growth.
Aside from the potential for strangling the economic recovery, the other obvious concern is the impact on national unity.
A carbon tax is more moral than a government allowing healthcare costs to skyrocket because they’re off the hook, pushing this liability unto employers. The only way employers can deal with this deregulated mess is to freeze wages as they pay for the healthcare bubble.
Ivison, of course, is a well known Conservative Party shill and toothless cheerleader. It's no coincidence the greasy Erin O'Toole now tweet reverberates this same BULLSHIT message. cahoots For there is no 'secret' tax. And the carbon tax is rebated back to Canadians. cdnpoli
Hey JustinTrudeau is this true... another tax!! 😡😡😡🤥🤥🤥🤥
77BlueJays What secret tax? Most of us all saw it coming! These idiots need to be kicked out and it’s urgent!
Will be great for my portfolio... I am heavily invested in many of these mining conglomerates
More taxes, it’s the Liberal way. Then sprinkle a bunch of hypocrisy, and fear with lumps of overspending and finger pointing and name calling, and you have a govt lead by a 3 time Uni drop out and you have the 2nd worst govt in N America. Not much of a yardstick though
Nice work.....Conservative reporter.
Fear and smear from conservative media. It's all they've got.
casperthemedic Could someone explain to John Ivison that carbon dioxide is not a pollutant and he should stop using that LPC trope. Maybe look up the carbon cycle and a few other things. “...the carbon cycle comprises a sequence of events that are key to make Earth capable of sustaining life.”
RickPetersonCA A tax is a Tax, is a tax on top of a tax and it's ATTACKS against hard working Canadians! IT DOESN'T WORK ! ELECTION P L E A S E !!! TrudeauMustGo
Is that really worth your entire front page?
Ooohh.. the Boogeyman is under the bed! Help! Only the Tool can save us! What a pathetic garbage RW Rag! 😩
Trudeau on taxes, August 2020: “The last thing Canadians need is to see a rise in taxes right now. Millions of Canadians are out of work and looking for work; the economy is still nowhere near where we need it to be.”
Alberta UCP considering further cuts to disability supports. Further cuts to AISH will mean more homelessness, more food bank usage and more risk for disabled Albertans. All of this in the midst of a pandemic. UCP cruelty is stunning.
If the Canadian Fuel Standard reduces the amount of carbon in fuels I'll be paying less in carbon tax but more in fuel costs as the supply chain will pass the costs up to the consumer. But less carbon is better for climate as it drives a long term economic shift as well. So....
I refuse to be stampeded into a panic by opinion pieces like this.
Ivison secret = known for four years. He just realized it. OMG! Like a tweenie John is so shocked by something that has been in place for years!
Let's see some proof , not right wing hack media BS
The world is on fire because of carbon emissions and you're worried about a gas tax?
Ivison after Kim Campbell kicked your ass on power and politics your credibility is zero zip nada Have a good day
The nonsense somehow gets support from time to time but eventually gets nowhere. CPC_HQ erinotoole
If it helps the environment, bring it on
IvisonJ How is it possible, in 2020, w the world ablaze, that a major newspaper op-ed on the merits of a climate policy completely fails to mention either climate crisis or economic threats fr climate change? Is that not essential context to understand the situation & merits of the CFS?
IvisonJ Thanks goodness. Once only had to look at California and Oregon to see and hear their leaders comment on climate change impact.
Why didn’t this legislation die with proroguation
acoyne If it is secret, how did you find out? I mean shouldn't read former secret new or maybe unsecret secret
If it’s a secret how do you know about it?
Liberals hate when gas is under a buck a litre.
We need to get REALLY aggressive in order to phase out carbon. Read the CFTC report: “This is members of the entire community involved in financial markets saying with one voice, ‘This is a serious problem, and it has to be addressed.’” cdnpoli finance
DCTFTW Nothing moves without carbon. All life is based on carbon.
'...businesses that can’t comply with the regulations to buy credits to make up the shortfall'. The great carbon credit scam.
Why has Ontario forgot about the disaster in Ontario. These green policies tripled the cost of electricity. California is suffering high taxes and power outages from these policies.
Jimbo679 Great news! The stacks of $20s and $100 dollar bills all over my place we’re making it look messy. Now I can just send them to Ottawa! We’ll lower global temperatures and clean up all this messy cash—win win!
acoyne Hope so
What you're calling polution I call plant life giving CO2.
rexglacer And people are surprised with these 'news'? Liberals are moving along with the plan that was announced back in 2016....this is a green new economy. I guess many didn't pay attention or have been living under the rock for the past 4 years.
lambert_pp Another garbage job by you and John Ivison
Not one source cited but John (the sky is falling) Ivison seems to know everything.
IvisonJ Excellent article by Mr. Ivison.
acoyne .....let’s cut the number of federal ridings in half! Half as many politicians and their costs will save money! This bullshit about ‘MP’s representing their constituents’ is just that - BULLSHIT! This political madness has to end! Canadian politics needs an ENEMA!
Everything is a secret with the liberals.
there's butts again, driving out the last bit of business from canada, like they decimated ontario
People get ready, there's a carbon free train a comin
Trump is going to cancel deferred taxes for Americans and Trudeau is going to tax us harder. Covid wasn’t our fault. Trump understands that, Trudeau doesn’t care.
IvisonJ I take it you didn’t write this headline given how long the Canadian Fuel Standard has been around.
They may have a few issue that need to be dealt with first.
In November 2019, Postmedia announced that 66% of its shares were now owned by Chatham Asset Management, an American media conglomerate which owns American Media, Inc., and is known for its close ties to the Republican party.
The govornment setting policy is not providing reasonable alternatives to me so just like the last 'carbon tax' this service is provided to you as more tax grabbing.
You spread lies. Disgusting reporting. Bush league.
Robert Lyman: The Clean Fuel Standard – The Latest in Climate Pancaking cdnpoli CFS carbontax
Who is John Ivison and is he an expert on something?
And Trudeau said no new tax. justintrudeau the Great Liar of Canada
Liberals continue to believe a government can tax its way to prosperity. Wrong.
Amazing how low journalism has sunk. Giving the lead to columnists who trade in runour, outrage and outright lying has destroyed the media’s credibility.
The expert are so slow, I said it back in May when Trudeau was doing his daily groundhog appearances, watch what happens to the carbon tax!!! And here we are;) We have a spending problem but's let's make it sound like it's something else, kaching.
You either made this up, or it's not a secret. Pick a lane because we're tired of NP scare tactics.
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