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News Release: Carbon Tax Increase to Bite Consumers on April 1st

| By Dan McTeague

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE March 31, 2023 Carbon Tax Increase to Bite Consumers on April 1st TORONTO (ON): Canadians for Affordable Energy (CAE) President Dan McTeague says the Carbon Tax increase that takes effect on Saturday, April 1st will hit consumers hard as energy prices remain high. Starting April 1st, the federal government plans to hike … Continued

Carbon Tax goes up April 1st – get ready to pay even more for everything

| By Dan McTeague

Get ready to pay more for … well, just about everything. In just a few days from now, on April 1st, Trudeau’s Federal Carbon Tax is set to increase – again – from $50 a ton to $65 a ton. This federal Carbon Tax increase will apply in Ontario, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and Alberta. This increase … Continued

(Un)Sustainable Jobs and an (Un)Just Transition

| By Dan McTeague

I’ve been speaking a lot lately about “Just Transition” and Trudeau and the green Left’s plan to shut down the Canadian oil and gas sector and shift workers away from those “carbon intensive” jobs in the oil and gas sector into “sustainable” “green energy” jobs.  On February 16th, the Trudeau government released its much anticipated … Continued

Premier Danielle Smith Takes on Trudeau’s Just Transition

| By Dan McTeague

It’s official! The Trudeau Liberal government’s “Just Transition” plan to kill the oil and gas industry is going forward!  What is “Just Transition”? While the details of Liberals‘ plan are few, Trudeau’s “Just Transition” initiative confirms his plan to kill the oil and gas sector and is now focused on “helping” to shift workers away … Continued

2023: The Year of Increases Part 2 (Just Transition)

| By Dan McTeague

In my previous blog post I started to lay out the various economy-killing legislation and policies that Trudeau and his green cabal have in store for Canadians in 2023.  These include the Carbon Tax, which is set to increase on April 1, 2023, and the Clean Fuel Standard (or the Second Carbon Tax), which will … Continued

2023: The Year of Increases Part 1 (Carbon Tax and Clean Fuel Standard)

| By Dan McTeague

Everything the Trudeau government touches seems to get worse. That’s certainly been the case these past three years when it comes to the issue of energy affordability.  Perhaps I should say “especially” when it comes to energy affordability. We are entering 2023 with skyrocketing prices, a national debt like we’ve never seen in Canadian history, … Continued

The problem with Electric Vehicles

| By Dan McTeague

For years now we’ve been hearing about the wonders of electric vehicles (EVs). Enormous amounts of money have been spent by governments to entice people to buy them, from subsidies to free charging stations.  Here in Canada, the Trudeau Liberals have already subsidised EVs at a cost of $1 billion. Another $680 million in the … Continued

Trudeau is destroying the Canadian economy one regulation at a time

| By Dan McTeague

It is amazing, with ever increasing energy costs in Canada and throughout the world, that Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau continues to promote the extreme Green Agenda that will destroy Canada’s energy industry.   The latest example? Just the other week, the Montreal Economic Institute (MEI) released a study that describes how the Trudeau government’s proposed … Continued

COP27 – Playing the fiddle while Rome burns

| By Dan McTeague

In case you missed the (mainstream) media frenzy, the 27th Conference of the Parties (COP) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) just wrapped up in Egypt.  This is the annual conference that highlights just how completely out of touch the elites, environmentalists and world leaders truly are, including our own prime … Continued