Canada’s premiers are finally pushing back on the carbon tax as it hits harder and the magic money rebates get less convincing. And you might think it’s weird that the Trudeau administration really believe trace elements of a gas vital to life are the deadliest peril Canadians and humans generally face. But what’s really weird is that the people fighting back all swear they believe these dodgy propositions too. Whatever happened to intelligent thought, or even mindless partisan bickering?

The vexing carbon tax went up on April 1 from $65 per tonne to $80. And surely it’s hard to believe Canadians paying a few more cents per litre of gas will make the difference between the sky catching fire and getting back to the supposedly splendid weather they had in the 1870s, which in fact was apparently pretty awful. Or that none of these people, with their huge staffs and passionate rhetoric, made any attempt to present a coherent case that the tax is not necessary. Instead, they tried to rally round the white flag.

Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe, for instance, addressed the House of Commons Standing Committee on Government Operations and Estimates on March 27 to explain his drastic refusal to collect the federal carbon tax on natural gas and electric home heating. He said the province was already leading with aggressive climate policies and couldn’t afford to do anything dramatic. Mind you, “we need to work together with our national partners on achieving global solutions.” Just that.

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