We have record unemployment in this country. Free and law-abiding Canadians are living under a form of house arrest. But instead of alleviating our suffering — by providing some form of tax relief — the Liberals twisted the knife by adding a 50 per cent hike on our carbon tax.

So that’s why we started this petition.

In less than three weeks, we rounded up nearly 19,000 signatures from outraged Canadians who want Trudeau to stop this subhuman attack on Canadian families.

I went to Staples in beautiful Fort Saskatchewan, Alberta, the closest actual town to where I live, to print the petition before heading to the local Canada Post outlet to send it to Trudeau via registered mail.

I’d like to thank everyone who signed it. I was exceptionally proud to see all of those names of people who are fighting to tell Trudeau to stop draining our pockets when they are already dry.

The Liberals now have the de-carbonized economy they wanted. Everyone is staying home — no flights, no travel, no movement, no jobs (apart from those that allow people to work from home). Isn’t this enough for the Liberals to put this crazy carbon tax on ice?

No — RBC is projecting that double-digit unemployment is going to hit Canada as a result of the coronavirus pandemic, and instead of taxation relief, you’re getting a 50 per cent hike of the one tax that touches absolutely everything in your life:

Sheila Gunn Reid (March 25, 2020):

One in three Canadian businesses will not survive for more than a month of the coronavirus pandemic, and that's on top of the 929,000 Canadians who lost their jobs last week.

Canada is in lockdown mode, people are scared, and the economy is being hammered. Families are facing unemployment, bankruptcy and poverty. And any government that would choose to raise taxes at such a time would be laughed at by the international community for doing something so dumb — or scorned for such shameless cruelty.

But that is exactly what Justin Trudeau is doing.

His Liberal government is planning to hike the carbon tax by 50 per cent!

That's right — just as Canada plunges towards the biggest recession since the Great Depression of 1929, our Liberal prime minister is going to make everything more expensive.

The hard-working, law-abiding workers of this great country will suffer incredibly as a result — and for what? So this trust fund, fake-progressive, "blackface" prime minister can continue his heartless, pre-pandemic, eco-radical agenda to impress his celebrity friends?

We cannot allow this to go on.

If you're outraged by this egregious abuse of power, please sign our petition to stop the carbon tax now.