Letters, Oct. 20, 2024: ‘Nothing wrong with carbon pricing’

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Axe-test dummies

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Re: LILLEY: PBO report clearly shows Trudeau’s carbon tax costs you more. (Calgary Sun, Oct. 11) The PBO offers us something rare in their most recent report on the impacts of carbon pricing: A cost-benefit analysis which excludes the benefits. Although they were happy to include future economic costs, by their own admission, the PBO office made no attempt to account for the benefits of a larger share of the world’s clean energy economy (which pricing incentives help us capture). Even more damning, they make no attempt to account for the benefits from addressing (rather than ignoring) the climate change destruction already being felt across the country. Because of this report, some insist carbon pricing hurts the majority of Canadians and should be removed. To me, that’s like arguing to cut out your car’s seat belt because it might give you a bruise if you were to crash.

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MARK TAYLOR

(Those two benefits would be pretty tough to quantify at this point.)

What’s in a name?

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau: Release. The. Names. It shouldn’t matter that Pierre Poilievre doesn’t want to get his security clearance updated so he can view the report. If this is such a national security issue, and it is, that you would publicly state that there are Conservatives names on the list, then release all the names, including the members of your party who are on it. This is a serious threat to our sovereignty, which has happened under your watch, yet you have done very little about it. In fact, you have taken many actions to avoid even getting this far, including hiring your family friend, former Governor General David Johnston, to produce a report stating that there was nothing to see here, move along. Also, since you state that you have already taken action against Liberal members on the list, share that information too. We already know that you either directly or indirectly allowed former Public Safety Minister Bill Blair to delay signing the CSIS warrant against former Ontario MPP Michael Chan for 54 days, and you only booted Don Valley North MP Han Dong out of the Liberal caucus when you had to, so please do tell us about the actions you have taken. By the way Prime Minister, I hold a Top Secret security clearance. Show me the list and I will give the Leader of the Opposition an unbiased opinion as to whether he needs to view the list or not.

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BRUCE FORSYTH

(Trudeau’s testimony was such a missed opportunity. He could have avoided being so partisan but instead chose to deflect and blame. But he may have overplayed his hand — again — no one is buying what he is selling.)

Something stinks

In his push for ‘relevance’ on the Alberta political scene, former Calgary mayor Naheed Nenshi may feel he has to ramp up his efforts to establish his ‘creds’. Perhaps the ‘World’s-Best/Canada’s-Highest-Paid-Mayor’ believes he is impervious to push-back or consequences when he goes a little too far in his ‘liberal use’ of the truth. As with an allegedly doctored quote from a UCP MLA linking transgender children and ‘poop.’ A video that, after 80,000 viewings, was pulled by the Alberta NDP leader. Oops! Too much too late? A semi-apology for having ‘mis-spoke’? An upcoming libel suit from the defamed MLA? The possibilities are endless.

BARBARA JESSIMAN

(If it was a doctored quote, it was, indeed, shameful.)

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