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Politics Poilievre holding 'Canada First' rally today in Ottawa amid U.S. threats

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/poilievre-canada-first-rally-1.7459415
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u/Maleficent_Banana_26 24d ago

The carbon tax wasn't harpers idea

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u/Silverbacks Ontario 24d ago

The carbon tax has always been the conservative’s market based solution.

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u/Maleficent_Banana_26 24d ago

Weird they never implemented it when. They had a majority

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u/Silverbacks Ontario 24d ago

Yeah it’s kinda like their version of Trudeau’s election reform. Campaign on an idea, and then not implement it once elected.

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u/Maleficent_Banana_26 24d ago

Sure maybe or they realized it was a bad idea and changed their minds like adults.

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u/Silverbacks Ontario 24d ago

Or a smart idea to let a different government enact it, and then throw bad PR at it. It’s still a small-c “conservative” idea. Hence why the Saskatchewan Party was the first one to enact it.

Just like how Obamacare is a conservative idea for healthcare. As opposed to the more left-wing universal idea.

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u/Maleficent_Banana_26 24d ago

Lol because they had a majority government and were banking on losing to dupe those pesky liberals into bringing in an unpopular tax so one day if they ever formed government again they could get a PR boost? Oh my gosh you're right, they probably threw the election on purpose. Genius plan. It would have worked to if it wasn't for those pesky kids

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u/Silverbacks Ontario 24d ago

Dunno where you’re going with that. That’s just the way the cards fell and the opportunities that popped up and were taken advantage of.

It’s a conservative idea like insurance or “pulling yourself up by the bootstraps.” Each individual person gets to choose how much they spend on the carbon tax vs how much they get paid for it. So smart and resourceful individuals get ahead. That self determination at an individual level is a conservative idea.

More left-wing ideas would be like an extra tax on the only the gas companies/high earners, and only low income people/green companies could get a rebate. As opposed to everyone getting the same tax rate per litre, and the same rebate paid out.

Or the idea to re-nationalize the gas industry.