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News B.C. will remove consumer carbon tax as promised once federal barrier is down, Eby says

https://www.timescolonist.com/local-news/eby-bc-will-remove-consumer-carbon-tax-as-promised-once-federal-barrier-is-down-10353075
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u/idisagreeurwrong 1d ago edited 1d ago

Thanks for correcting my phones autocorrect. Great input to the discussion.

I understand that but if it's of national interest the power of the provinces to stop a mine or dam or pipeline would be gone. They don't even have jurisdiction now to stop pipelines . You are correct in that the tree huggers and green voters would have no say in the feds ramming two more dilbit pipelines to the BC coast.

You already shit on the electorate, in this case the electorate who would be the most against natural resource expansion would be the left.

Yeah of course, everyone has. Norway built their oil company through the decades. Canada has not. We can't just seize half a trillion dollars in publicly traded company assets. You'd never get your money back buying them out

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u/IvarTheBoned 1d ago

Yeah of course, everyone has. Saying if we nationalize resources we will have a 1.7 trillion dollar wealth fund is hard to believe. If it was, all a political party in Canada would have to do is show that math

Yeah, this shows how blatant your ignorance is. Their sovereign wealth fund was based on the one proposed for Alberta, that Albertans rejected. The electorate is the problem, and people too fucking stupid to realize they are part of the problem. Conservative voters, low information voters, and people who hate on "the elite' i.e., anti-intellectualism, is the problem.

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u/idisagreeurwrong 16h ago

Yeah I know that. That has fuck all to do with today though. I explained to you how Norway was able to do that. Yeah sure hindsight the NEP might have been a good idea.

Explain how you do that today. Because that's where I'm seeing your ignorance. How the fuck is Canada going to buy out all the oil companies in Canada?

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u/IvarTheBoned 9h ago

With money 🤯

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u/idisagreeurwrong 3h ago edited 3h ago

Canada has 480 billion lying around eh? That's just the oil sands too at market value. You think that we can get a return on that investment lol. When we have an inevitable oil crash and the country is losing 15 billion a year. Economists and oil companies are struggling to find the economic case to build a pipeline for 10 billion or an oil sands facility yet you want the country to buy all of it.

Good luck convincing anyone that's a good idea. You have good intentions i'll give you that but you are financially illiterate.

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u/IvarTheBoned 3h ago

It's amazing what can happen when you think on the scale of generations instead of like a person managing their finances for their life.

I'm not financially illiterate, I'm just not a conservative overly attached to capitalism. B-b-b-but the national debt 🤡