Okay yes, at the pumps it may be, but what I’m saying is: Company 1 increases their prices 10% to offset the CT costs. Company 2 takes that 10% cost increase + their 10% increase and raises their pricing. Company 3 has an increase from Company 2 + 10% increase of their own and raises their prices accordingly.

Every level raises the prices that much more and in the end the consumers get stuck with all of that. So we’re paying the carbon tax for each company down the supply chain.

That’s fair. But as an ordinary person what I see is this: no matter which government is in charge, I’m getting poorer and no government is willing to do anything to help people like me. They just keep blowing smoke up my ass and pretending like they’re actually doing something.

Absolutely agree. “Shrinkflation” is already a real problem used by many companies to give the appearance of not raising prices.

In all fairness, I’m getting nowhere near the amount back on rebates that prices have increased for me. One check doesn’t even cover 1 month of utility increases let alone the several months that go by in between. And there’s grocery, clothing and fuel costs on top of that.

Part of the problem is that none of the parties address the real problems created by their actions. Liberal introduce a nation-wide carbon tax that should in theory tax large companies. In reality: Companies don’t pay taxes, they raise their prices to cover the tax increase which “trickles down” (the only time trickle down economics actually “works”) to the people.

So without dealing with that scenario when implementing the taxes, the ordinary Canadian gets hosed.

But now lets say PP becomes prime minister and reduces the taxes. Is he going to force companies to drop their prices to make up for that? Probably not. Companies will just use that as profit. So Canadians are still getting hosed.

And now after that lets say Liberals rise to power again. And re-implement these taxes. Once again, the companies will just pass those added costs onto the consumer again.

I wish I knew what the solution is here but I really don’t. It feels like no matter what the government in charge does, companies just keep using it as an excuse to hose us one way or the other.

I think, and I’ve noticed this a lot with local radio. Big media companies shy away from pointing fingers and criticizing ANY potential advertisers. I guess they don’t want to bite the hand that feeds them.

This is quite problematic.