Whatever climate deals Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and this country’s Premiers force upon Canadians, nothing is permanent. All can be revoked.

That was the message the Sun editorial board took away after meeting with Chris Berg, a senior fellow at the Australian-based Institute of Public Affairs.

Berg was touring the country courtesy of the Canadian Taxpayers Federation, which wanted to highlight Australia’s disastrous flirtation with carbon pricing. Berg and his organization enjoyed a front row seat while Australia implemented a controversial cap-and-trade tax on carbon in 2012 that cost Australians $8 billion annually – only to remove it just two years later.

The governing conservative party there first supported the emissions-reduction scheme. But in the face of public resentment after electricity prices spiked 25%, an “Axe the Tax” backlash led to political upheaval and the cancellation of the costly and hugely unpopular plan.

Berg was in Canada to deliver this cautionary tale, and warn Canadians not to go down this destructive path – though some provinces are doing just that. And, according to Trudeau, every province will soon have some form of carbon pricing.

Make no mistake.

The current crop of carbon pricing schemes proposed here will significantly escalate our cost of living and do little to help the global environment.

They will divert billions of dollars from your pockets, and pad government pockets.

Hopefully, we can learn from Australia’s story. We need to tell our politicians we care about the environment but reject flawed and expensive tax grabs as a means to address global environmental issues, particularly now that U.S. President Donald Trump is doing just that.

There are alternatives and we shouldn’t buy into policy developed by activists.

We can repeal cap and trade in Ontario. We can repeal the carbon tax in Alberta. We can stop punitive measures from being implemented on hardworking Canadians from coast to coast all in the name of some ill-conceived green agenda.

People in Ontario are justifiably angry about skyrocketing energy bills. Albertans are just starting their activism against their carbon tax.

Governments, corporations and individuals can address environmental issues and work together toward solutions. But schemes that serve to drive up costs, particularly on low income people, are just wrong.

Let’s learn from Australia’s lesson and reject or repeal them.