Smith Agrees to Carbon Tax Hike — Report

According to Western Standard News (WSN), “Prime Minister Mark Carney and Premier Danielle Smith have reportedly reached an agreement that would see Alberta’s industrial carbon tax rise to $130 per tonne by 2040.”¹

“Under the reported framework, Alberta’s industrial carbon tax would increase from $95 per tonne to $100 per tonne next year and remain frozen at that level until 2030.”

“The tax would then rise by $3 per tonne annually until reaching $130 per tonne in 2040.”

Both governments are also looking at a fall date for when the Liberal government will designate a pipeline to the British Columbia coast as being in the national interest, according to the National Post.

“Building a new one-million barrel-a-day pipeline from Alberta to the West Coast has been the biggest talking point of the memorandum of understanding (MOU) on energy between the two sides,” says WSN.

Only two years ago, Premier Smith was less enthusiastic about new carbon taxes.

Canada, Alberta included, does not need more punitive carbon taxes, does not need emissions caps, does not need net zero power grids. All of these things proposed by Ottawa, these ideas simply do not work.
Premier Danielle Smith, Leader’s Dinner, Calgary Alberta, April 3, 2024

It is not only Prime Minister Mark Carney’s goal to continue punishing Canadians with punitive carbon taxes, but according to his own words, to strand the country’s oil reserves.

To meet the 1.5°C target, more than 80 per cent of current fossil fuel reserves (including three-quarters of coal, half of gas, one-third of oil) would need to stay in the ground, stranding these assets.
Mark Carney, Value(s): Building a Better World for All, Ch. 11

While Carney appears to be negotiating amid rising separatist sentiment in Alberta, there is nothing to indicate that he is setting aside his globalist objectives. If he can kick the pipeline can further down the road while getting Albertans to pay more taxes now to fund his mounting deficits, that sounds like a win for the Liberals — and a loss for all of Canada as Carney pursues his authoritarian “Great Reset.”

Carney’s climate plan is much closer to the notion of Soviet central long-term planning… What Carney ultimately wants… is a technocratic dictatorship justified by climate alarmism.
Peter Foster (review of Carney’s book), National Post, Jun 05, 2021