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Carney Climate Plan is More of the Same

News release from Friends of Science
Mark Carney has released his climate platform for his leadership bid for the federal Liberal party of Canada, but it is just ‘more of the same,’ says Friends of Science Society in a new report by Robert Lyman. Titled “Putting Lipstick on a Pig,” Lyman’s report reveals the devastating financial impact of current policies, denouncing Carney’s plan to impose ever more stringent regulations, to shift the unpopular consumer-facing carbon tax to a higher burden on industry. Lyman denounced Carney’s interest in adopting the EU’s Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM), which goes into effect in the EU this year. CBAM is a tariff on imports from countries that don’t have carbon emission abatement programs equivalent to the EU’s or Canada’s. Onerous, mandatory Scope 1, 2 and 3 emissions reporting is inherent in CBAM implementation. Friends of Science Society had issued a letter to the International Sustainability Standards Board in 2022. In it, potential financial burdens and social damages for mandatory emissions reporting in the USA were summarized by Steve Soukup, author of “The Dictatorship of Woke,” as, “The SEC’s own estimates suggest that the overall cost of disclosure and compliance for public companies will rise from approximately $3.8 billion per year to over $10.2 billion—a more than 250 percent increase, based on this rule alone.” Carney is former governor of the Bank of England and of the Bank of Canada, and past UN climate finance ‘czar.’ He favors mandatory emissions reporting. He was a principal architect of the Global Financial Alliance for Net Zero (GFANZ) which intended to have the world of finance sway markets. In the US House Judiciary Committee report “Climate Control…” “the committee claims the ‘climate cartel’ is waging a ‘global war on the American way of life.'” Curiously, in in his keynote speech at the 2021 UN Principles of Responsible Investment (PRI) China Climate Neutrality Week, Carney thanks China for the impetus for establishing the Network for Greening the Financial System and the groundwork for the mandatory emissions reporting which he now promotes. Key banks and influential asset managers have since left GFANZ and similar organizations have disbanded as the US antitrust investigation continues. Other Canadian commentators disapprove Carney’s climate plan. The Financial Post of Feb. 11, 2025, published an op-ed “Hiding the Costs of Net Zero doesn’t Reduce Them.” Writing in “The Hub,” energy analyst Heather Exner-Pirot is blunt about Carney’s plan – it is outdated, and the public have moved on to affordability and energy security concerns. Far from ‘the science is settled,’ a new collection of scientific papers, posted on the Heritage Foundation’s site, demonstrate much of the alarmist rhetoric regarding climate change is vastly overstated. These papers align closely with and support the Trump administration’s current energy policy in the United States. A new Friends of Science video “Nix Net Zero or Climate Billions will Bankrupt Canada” on the Clean Electricity Regulations released in Dec. 2024, shows that Canada would spend $690 Billion just to reduce 8% of its emissions from the electricity sector – possibly as much as $12 trillion to reduce all emissions. Canada’s annual GDP is only $2.2 trillion. Fraser Institute just released a report “Decarbonizing Canada’s Electricity Generation” on Canada’s impractical, unrealistic decarbonization goals. Despite President Trump having pulled America out of the Paris Agreements and all other climate-related financial obligations, a group of states and cities called “America-is-all-In” vows to continue its forms of climate action, to meet Paris targets. |
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About: Friends of Science Society is an independent group of earth, atmospheric and solar scientists, engineers, and citizens who are celebrating its 22nd year of offering climate science insights. After a thorough review of a broad spectrum of literature on climate change, Friends of Science Society has concluded that the sun is the main driver of climate change, not carbon dioxide (CO2). |
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Saskatchewan becomes first Canadian province to fully eliminate carbon tax

From LifeSiteNews
Saskatchewan has become the first Canadian province to free itself entirely of the carbon tax.
On March 27, Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe announced the removal of the provincial industrial carbon tax beginning April 1, boosting the province’s industry and making Saskatchewan the first carbon tax free province.
Under Moe’s direction, Saskatchewan has dropped the industrial carbon tax which he says will allow Saskatchewan to thrive under a “tariff environment.”
“I would hope that all of the parties running in the federal election would agree with those objectives and allow the provinces to regulate in this area without imposing the federal backstop,” he continued.
The removal of the tax is estimated to save Saskatchewan residents up to 18 cents a liter in gas prices.
The removal of the tax will take place on April 1, the same day the consumer carbon tax will reduce to 0 percent under Prime Minister Mark Carney’s direction. Notably, Carney did not scrap the carbon tax legislation: he just reduced its current rate to zero. This means it could come back at any time.
Furthermore, while Carney has dropped the consumer carbon tax, he has previously revealed that he wishes to implement a corporation carbon tax, the effects of which many argued would trickle down to all Canadians.
The Saskatchewan Association of Rural Municipalities (SARM) celebrated Moe’s move, noting that the carbon tax was especially difficult on farmers.
“I think the carbon tax has been in place for approximately six years now coming up in April and the cost keeps going up every year,” SARM president Bill Huber said.
“It puts our farming community and our business people in rural municipalities at a competitive disadvantage, having to pay this and compete on the world stage,” he continued.
“We’ve got a carbon tax on power — and that’s going to be gone now — and propane and natural gas and we use them more and more every year, with grain drying and different things in our farming operations,” he explained.
“I know most producers that have grain drying systems have three-phase power. If they haven’t got natural gas, they have propane to fire those dryers. And that cost goes on and on at a high level, and it’s made us more noncompetitive on a world stage,” Huber decalred.
The carbon tax is wildly unpopular and blamed for the rising cost of living throughout Canada. Currently, Canadians living in provinces under the federal carbon pricing scheme pay $80 per tonne.
2025 Federal Election
Mark Carney refuses to clarify 2022 remarks accusing the Freedom Convoy of ‘sedition’

From LifeSiteNews
Mark Carney described the Freedom Convoy as an act of ‘sedition’ and advocated for the government to use its power to crush the non-violent protest movement.
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney refused to elaborate on comments he made in 2022 referring to the anti-mandate Freedom Convoy protest as an act of “sedition” and advocating for the government to put an end to the movement.
“Well, look, I haven’t been a politician,” Carney said when a reporter in Windsor, Ontario, where a Freedom Convoy-linked border blockade took place in 2022, asked, “What do you say to Canadians who lost trust in the Liberal government back then and do not have trust in you now?”
“I became a politician a little more than two months ago, two and a half months ago,” he said. “I came in because I thought this country needed big change. We needed big change in the economy.”
Carney’s lack of an answer seems to be in stark contrast to the strong opinion he voiced in a February 7, 2022, column published in the Globe & Mail at the time of the convoy titled, “It’s Time To End The Sedition In Ottawa.”
In that piece, Carney wrote that the Freedom Convoy was a movement of “sedition,” adding, “That’s a word I never thought I’d use in Canada. It means incitement of resistance to or insurrection against lawful authority.”
Carney went on to claim in the piece that if “left unchecked” by government authorities, the Freedom Convoy would “achieve” its “goal of undermining our democracy.”
Carney even targeted “[a]nyone sending money to the Convoy,” accusing them of “funding sedition.”
Internal emails from the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) eventually showed that his definition of sedition were not in conformity with the definition under Canada’s Criminal Code, which explicitly lists the “use of force” as a necessary aspect of sedition.
“The key bit is ‘use of force,’” one RCMP officer noted in the emails. “I’m all about a resolution to this and a forceful one with us victorious but, from the facts on the ground, I don’t know we’re there except in a small number of cases.”
Another officer replied with, “Agreed,” adding that “It would be a stretch to say the trucks barricading the streets and the air horns blaring at whatever decibels for however many days constitute the ‘use of force.’”
The reality is that the Freedom Convoy was a peaceful event of public protest against COVID mandates, and not one protestor was charged with sedition. However, the Liberal government, then under Justin Trudeau, did take an approach similar to the one advocated for by Carney, invoking the Emergencies Act to clear-out protesters. Since then, a federal judge has ruled that such action was “not justified.”
Despite this, the two most prominent leaders of the Freedom Convoy, Tamara Lich and Chris Barber, still face a possible 10-year prison sentence for their role in the non-violent assembly. LifeSiteNews has reported extensively on their trial.
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