Dear Editor:
RE: Show us a plan, March 28.
It gets tiring to hear when those who say the Conservatives have no plan.
The last Conservative government brought in industrial plan for climate change. Some experts state that plan does the most for climate protection. Heavy industry has done much in this regard whether it’s in steel manufacturing; some agricultural.
All of this has been done by either technology or changing to natural gas for production of electricity. Past climate conferences world wide identified natural gas as a targeted clean technology for electricity production.
The current Conservative Party still emphasizes these methods as a climate plan. So stop saying they fail to have a plan. What they’re planning is to not tax individual Canadians.
It seems strange that the current government accepts plans from BC and Quebec without question but rejects mostly Conservative-governed provinces’ plans for climate and definitely the energy-rich ones. How convenient that they do not meet the Liberal standards. It shows utter disdain for those provinces, particularly Alberta, who have paid for most of our social programs for decades.
The smart money would be on a party who sees that Canada is rich in resources, has only a 1.5% of the world’s carbon footprint and could be providing natural gas to our allies and many developing countries to help if the want to get off coal and other dirty methods of creating electricity.
And if the current carbon tax is doing such great things in our PM’s words – it’s working, it’s been here since 2019 and even he says that the climate events (fires, floods, etc.) are getting worse each year. Hardly testimony that his plan is working.
Finally, in what world can anyone accept that you’re being taxed but we are giving you more back? That is nonsense.
And yes, I’m perfectly okay with getting rid of the tax and losing the rebate, thank you.
Doak McCraney,
Guelph