The Conservatives seized on Parliamentary Budget Officer Yves Giroux’s disclosure that the federal government has internal findings that it is keeping under wraps
Parliamentary Budget Officer Yves Giroux disclosed to a House of Commons committee on Monday that the government has internal analysis of the economic impacts of its consumer and industrial carbon pricing programs that it is keeping under wraps.
The Official Opposition seized on the issue Tuesday during Question Period, where Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre and four of his MPs repeatedly accused the government of a cover-up and muzzling the budget watchdog and demanded the minority Liberals release their internal findings.
However, rather than addressing those questions, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his colleagues responded by pointing out that Mr. Giroux has belatedly acknowledged an error in his own report and deflected by accusing the Conservatives of gagging their MPs on the abortion issue.
Mr. Trudeau maintained his government’s position that eight out of 10 Canadian households are better off with the carbon price system because the rebate they receive is greater than what they pay for the fuel charge.
In an interview Tuesday on CTV’s Power Play with Vassy Kapelos, NDP House Leader Peter Julian said the government should release the internal report.
The Parliamentary Budget Officer has faced immense criticism from the Liberals since the Canadian Press reported last week that he quietly notified Parliament about an error in his impact analysis of the consumer carbon price.
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Fighting climate change is going to hurt economically, either do an analysis comparing the current plan to an alternative one, or don’t bother doing it.
Publishing an analysis that says ‘the carbon tax hurts the economy’ just gives dumbass conservatives something to bitch and complain about.
Regardless, compare whatever painful number is there to the trillions and trillions and trillions of dollars that severe climate change will cost us and you’ll see that the plan still makes sense.
I don’t understand how conservatives can be so fucking stupid that they don’t understand that our entire planet and biosphere crumbling and dying beneath us will cost the economy.
I don’t understand how conservatives can be so fucking stupid that they don’t understand that our entire planet and biosphere crumbling and dying beneath us will cost the economy.
Some would rather kick the can down the road. They figure they’ll die before shit gets real.
CBC has a MUCH BETTER article on this. This is just the conservative and PBO slant attempting to deflect a VERY SERIOUS error in their own report on economic impact of carbon pricing and carbon emissions.
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Still way more transparent than Harper’s government ever was.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Parliamentary Budget Officer Yves Giroux disclosed to a House of Commons committee on Monday that the government has internal analysis of the economic impacts of its consumer and industrial carbon pricing programs that it is keeping under wraps.
The Official Opposition seized on the issue Tuesday during Question Period, where Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre and four of his MPs repeatedly accused the government of a cover-up and muzzling the budget watchdog and demanded the minority Liberals release their internal findings.
However, rather than addressing those questions, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his colleagues responded by pointing out that Mr. Giroux has belatedly acknowledged an error in his own report and deflected by accusing the Conservatives of gagging their MPs on the abortion issue.
Mr. Trudeau maintained his government’s position that eight out of 10 Canadian households are better off with the carbon price system because the rebate they receive is greater than what they pay for the fuel charge.
In an interview Tuesday on CTV’s Power Play with Vassy Kapelos, NDP House Leader Peter Julian said the government should release the internal report.
The Parliamentary Budget Officer has faced immense criticism from the Liberals since the Canadian Press reported last week that he quietly notified Parliament about an error in his impact analysis of the consumer carbon price.
The original article contains 651 words, the summary contains 218 words. Saved 67%. I’m a bot and I’m open source!
Who the fuck cares what the economic analysis is?
Fighting climate change is going to hurt economically, either do an analysis comparing the current plan to an alternative one, or don’t bother doing it.
Publishing an analysis that says ‘the carbon tax hurts the economy’ just gives dumbass conservatives something to bitch and complain about.
Regardless, compare whatever painful number is there to the trillions and trillions and trillions of dollars that severe climate change will cost us and you’ll see that the plan still makes sense.
I don’t understand how conservatives can be so fucking stupid that they don’t understand that our entire planet and biosphere crumbling and dying beneath us will cost the economy.
Some would rather kick the can down the road. They figure they’ll die before shit gets real.
CBC has a MUCH BETTER article on this. This is just the conservative and PBO slant attempting to deflect a VERY SERIOUS error in their own report on economic impact of carbon pricing and carbon emissions.
https://lemmy.ca/post/22611036