Premier David Eby mocks Pierre Poilievre's letter asking B.C. to join carbon tax fight
Premier David Eby mocks Pierre Poilievre's letter asking B.C. to join carbon tax fight
Poilievre's letter says the carbon tax system set up by Trudeau's government is an imposition on the provinces that requires them to accept an ever-increasing tax.
But Eby, speaking at an unrelated news conference in Terrace about 1,400 kilometres northwest of Vancouver, says B.C. would end up with less money returned to the province if it accepted Poilievre's request.
"I don't live in the Pierre Poilievre campaign office and baloney factory," said Eby. "I live in B.C., am the premier and decisions have consequences. The fact we face is that if we followed Mr. Poilievre's suggestion there would be less money returned to British Columbians after April 1 than there would be if the federal government administered this increase directly."
Truth is, it doesn’t matter if things become more expensive for us; unless we wean ourselves off oil, we’ll eventually have nothing worth taxing.
Yeah, but there are some really short-sighted people who still get to vote, for whom "preventing that thing that will only probably happen and is really bad" isn't a value proposition. It's weird, but you know they're out there. For them, ya gotta sell them on "this gives you more money in the end" and hope they can do basic math.
Even that's a long shot.