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If Justin Trudeau’s own (ex) cabinet ministers — Jody Wilson-Raybould and Jane Philpott — don’t trust him to respect the rule of law, how can we trust him on anything?

How can we trust him when he says the carbon tax he’s imposing on Ontario April 1 will make 80% of households richer through rebates?

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A more realistic assessment by respected Canadian economist Jack Mintz, writing in the National Post, estimates once you factor in all of the direct and indirect costs of carbon pricing, about 50% of Ontario households will pay more in carbon taxes than they get in rebates. (“Only in the Twilight Zone will carbon taxes make families ‘richer,'” Oct. 3, 2018.)

How can we trust Trudeau when he says his carbon tax will effectively lower industrial carbon dioxide emissions linked to climate change, citing B.C.’s decade-old carbon tax as an example?

B.C.’s emissions are rising.

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As the Globe and Mail reports, B.C.’s “carbon footprint has been growing almost every year since 2010, according to the latest provincial government data…emissions grew from 61.3 million tonnes to 62.3 million tonnes from 2015 to 2016. Emissions have also been trending upward since 2010, excluding a small decrease in 2014.”