Green Hysteria = Tax Revenue Gold

I opened up the paper this morning and was met by yet another story on global warming. This one disgusted me more than most since the fears of many GW debunkers are coming true. BC has become the first government in North America to institute the much dreaded carbon tax. Who will pay this tax? Not businesses but you, the ordinary citizen. Namely motorists and those who heat their houses with hydrocarbon fuels such as oil and natural gas. In other words, most BC residents will be footing this bill. The tax will be set at $10 a tonne of carbon dioxide, increasing the price of gas another 2.4 cents per liter. As you probably know, BC already has some of the highest gas prices in the country. They play to increase the tax to $30 over the next five years. They gave an example of a person driving a pickup truck $40,000 a year. This is a typical vehicle a construction worker or trades-person would drive. The tax alone would add another $500 to their fuel bill. I find that utterly outrageous. What makes this more upsetting is other provinces, particularly with less cool headed liberal governments will likely follow suit. Quebec is already talking about instituting a tax.

BC Finance Minister Carole Taylor said "We promised you green and today we deliver green." Noting that "This is an important turning point for B.C., and we think for Canada because we are out in front on this," she said, suggesting the new tax could raise up a new "social movement." So basically, this social movement means that already overtaxed Canadians will have to stretch their budgets even further in order to pay for a problem that does not exist? This is just another blatant cash grab by left wing governments looking for any excuse in the book to tax their citizens further. What makes this particularly outrageous is legions of people, brainwashed by the lies of the global warming people, will buy into it and gladly pay. This needs to stop NOW. I personally refuse to pay any carbon tax, regardless of the consequences, because I feel that the government should not be using fraud to extort even more money for citizens. This is wrong and yet nobody can see it. Global warming is the biggest money making scam since the Papal indulgences of the 16th century. Scamming lower class people to pay for lavish expenditures. At least one man was smart enough to stand up and say that was wrong. Where is the Martin Luther of global warming?

Source: National Post

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Family Day Fraud

Back during the 2007 provincial election, I laughed at McGuinty's Family Day. Well, it's now coming up this Monday and a lot of debate is stirring over it. 40% of Ontarians will not be getting it off. As for myself, it replaces an existing holiday that was scheduled before Family Day was announced. So technically, I don't consider myself as getting Family Day off.

The issue was first brought up by the Toronto police services who noted that they were the only people on city staff who would not be getting the holiday. Other people not getting the day off include contracted union workers, retail staff, and many others in the private sector. Businesses had little time to prepare and adjust contracts so a lot of people have either the choice of working or not getting paid. The holiday itself is corrupt in its nature. It was brought up when McGuinty was starting to dip in the polls as a vote buying measure. A number of foolish Canadians seem to have bought his game but for the rest of us, tough luck. It seems to me to be more of a holiday for civil servants and school teachers. This group of people already gets more time off than anybody else. Days they get off that nobody else does include Remembrance Day, Boxing Day, the day after New Years, and Christmas Eve. Now they have one more to add to this longest list. I think we should give Family Day the boot. I personally refuse to celebrate a holiday that was created for purely corrupt political reasons. To me, it makes more sense to add a holiday in June instead of the middle of winter, since what's there to do in February?

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David Suzuki: To Protect Planet, End Democracy

If you're Canadian, chances are you're familiar with David Suzuki. He hosts the low rated CBC nature show "The Nature of Things". He also has a doctorate in genetics and holds the Order of Canada. Recently, he's become a very controversial figure due to his increasingly radical views on climate change. While on a university tour recently, Suzuki remarked at the University of Toronto that politicians who fail to act against climate change should be jailed. In his opinion, failure to act is a crime. A Freudian slip maybe? No, he reinforced the remark again while speaking at McGill. His publicist noted that his remarks should not be taken literally. I'm curious how they are meant to be taken though.

These remarks remind me of the movie Being John Malcovich, since it allows us to walk inside the reads of the radical environmental left. We'll take the assumption that his jail comment wasn't to be taken literally but it does show us one important factor. That being that Suzuki feels that democracy is harming his cause, and in order to stop that, we must eliminate democracy. If a democratically elected official does not agree with our agenda, then me must make him/her "disappear". We've long been joking that denial of global warming has become equated to denial of the holocaust, but it seems like people such as Suzuki are making that closer to a disturbing truth. Terry O'Neill of the National Post wrote "We should also not be surprised at the intolerance that permeates Suzuki's "lock 'em up" rhetoric. After all, despite the multicultural mantra that we "celebrate our differences," there's a disturbingly illiberal tendency these days (as shown in the recent "human-rights" prosecutions of Ezra Levant and Mark Steyn, for example) to censor those with whom one doesn't agree. It's only a very small step to try to throw such disagreeable persons into prison, too. " Due to how weak the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms is on ensuring our Section 2 rights, I would tend to agree.

I refer to people like Suzuki as eco-fascists. I don't use fascist to only define right-wing since I believe there are left wing fascists. Josef Stalin, Fidel Castro, Mao Zhedong, and Kim Jong Il are perhaps the best known. It's becoming increasingly totalitarian and it's almost taking on a religious mantra. It would not be an issue if there weren't sizable portions of the population taking people like Suzuki seriously. The issue has come to dominate the left, yet at the same time is rejecting nearly everything the left wing supposedly stands for in the west. The deniers need to begin protesting and becoming more vocal, to stand up to radicals like Suzuki. Let them know that they are wrong and their trash is no longer going to be tolerated. No liberty, no green.

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