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Originally Posted by djforsberg
And how can we ask other countries to do something when we aren't doing it ourselves? A lot of people forgot what it takes to be a leader in the world. Besides, its not a very good look to be using 1.6% of the world's emissions with 0.5% of the world's population. We can do better than playing to the lowest common denominator like today's right wants to do. What a sad and dishonourable way to live.
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We might only have 0.5% of the worlds population, but what percentage of the worlds population benefits from our exports. Our wood is building homes all over the world. Our oil and gas, our grain, our pork, all this stuff isn’t just produced for Canada. Maybe those other countries buying our stuff can pay the carbon tax instead of hardworking Canadians. And again our climate. This isn’t Alabama or Mexico or Spain. We get rotten weather and it is not fair to penalize us for heating our homes. Many Canadians are already suffering the effects of utility poverty. I do not think the rebates will come close to covering what the actual costs are.