My team and I have started my 11th round of door-knocking in the constituency to gather feedback prior to my return to the Legislature at the end of October.
I am an MLA for everyone and hearing the concerns from every area of the Camrose Constituency is a priority to me.
It's no surprise that affordability continues to be a struggle for many people. Justin Trudeau’s carbon tax is an unmitigated disaster for families and businesses. Discussion revolving around federal matters is dominating conversation at the doors.
According to the federal government’s own numbers, released at the beginning of the year by the Parliamentary Budget Officer, the carbon tax is costing Canadians an extra $1,200 annually and making an outrageous $20 billion-a-year dent in the national economy.
In a shocking display of duplicitousness, we saw federal NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh signal that he may pull his longstanding support for the carbon tax. Additionally, B.C. NDP premier David Eby is now promising to kill his province’s consumer carbon tax if his party manages to get re-elected this fall.
After years of supporting the carbon tax and stressing its moral and economic imperatives, these NDP politicians – who will soon be facing voters in federal and provincial elections – are running as far away from this disastrous policy.
Questions remain, however, about where Alberta NDP Leader Naheed Nenshi and his party stand on the carbon tax.
The Alberta NDP, after all, was the first government to impose a carbon tax in 2015 – a tax our United Conservative government scrapped in 2019.
Since then, the Alberta NDP have been ardent supporters of Trudeau’s carbon tax, siding repeatedly with their friend and ally in Ottawa over everyday families and businesses.
And just last year, the Alberta NDP voted en masse against a United Conservative motion in the legislature to condemn Trudeau’s carbon tax.
But where do they stand today? For a guy who loves to talk, Nenshi has been very quiet on this issue since his NDP comrades across the country started pulling their support for the carbon tax.
Do you want to know who he’s siding with: his boss Jagmeet Singh or his good friend and ally Justin Trudeau?
The carbon tax has made everything more expensive, hurt families and businesses, and is all economic pain for zero environmental gain.
Unfortunately, despite Trudeau’s re-election hopes being in a tailspin – he remains steadfastly determined to impose this disastrous tax on Canadians who are already struggling with the rising cost of living fuelled by a host of disastrous federal policies.
The carbon tax does not deliver an appropriate return on investment for Canadians.
The next federal election is approaching, making Albertans and Canadians feeling hopeful.
At that time, everyday people will finally get to have their say about the carbon tax and other bad federal policies.
As for me, I join so many across the country in saying it’s time to axe the tax!
