The truth about carbon tax debate

The article in the Oct. 31 Leader-post, Ottawa’s carbon tax calculations disputed by Ontario, Sask. leaders, is rather interesting as the debate continues over how the carbon tax rebate for the average family will be greater than the cost.

“In Saskatchewan, an average family would pay $403 in carbon taxes while receiving $598 in rebates.”

I quote from a Department of Justice brochure dated June 1995, Facts about the Firearms Bill, Q11. “Some people say it is going to cost anywhere from $500 million to $1.5 billion for the government to set up the registration system. Is this true?” ANSWER: “No. Setting up the system will cost approximately $85 million, spread over five years, which will be recovered over time from the fees described above.” “None of these costs will be taken out of Provincial, Municipal, or police budgets”.

Some years later the costs of gun registration, supported by MP Ralph Goodale, were tabulated at approximately $2 billion.

So much for the credibility of our federal government, and I suspect the carbon tax figures quoted by Ontario Premier Doug Ford are far more realistic than those bandied about by federal politicians.

As for man-made climate change, check out the Eemian period some 130,000 years ago, when apparently Arctic temperatures were about 2-4 degrees higher than today. I gather the computer models did a poor job of predicting destructive CO2 emissions. Karl Strahm, Regina