In real terms, neither we nor our governments have any clue as to how much the new carbon tax is actually costing businesses, families and individual consumers! In this issue of the PULSE, you have read several articles about Price vs. Cost. We are all well aware as to Prices we are paying for the goods and services we are buying and consuming on a daily basis. But none of us are aware of the total Cost of the carbon tax for these goods and services. Many of us have heard about the $9 million Cost our government is incurring to sway Low Information Carbon Consumers that we need to lead today so we are not following tomorrow. We likely will never fully understand the true Cost of the government bureaucracy that has been created to administer the new carbon tax. Nor will we ever appreciate the Cost businesses across the province have had to incur to get on board with the carbon tax. Lastly, what will be the Cost to rip out the carbon tax after the next provincial election or once we determine that it has had no fundamental or meaningful impact on the reduction for CO2 gases, not pollution!

There’s got to be a better way! If we channelled these Costs into tax breaks and incentives for companies and their investors to reduce their GHG emissions, wouldn’t this be a better way? If we provided grants and rebates to companies and their investors to fund innovation and technology to reduce GHG emissions, wouldn’t this be a better way? If we exported this expertise and technology around the world to the countries and their billions of people who are living without electricity or green and clean cooking and heating alternatives, wouldn’t this be a better way?

Never, in my lifetime, in a country so very rich in natural resources, had I ever imagined that I would hear our fellow Canadians talk about energy poverty here at home. At what Price? How long will it take for our governments to realize the folly of their ideological and environment ways, and at what Cost to us all?

Get Informed and Let’s Axe the Tax!