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PBO Report Reveals Trudeau’s Carbon Tax Crushes Middle-Class Canadians
PBO Report Exposes Trudeau’s Carbon Tax as a Middle-Class Burden, With Net Economic Losses, Crushed Job Prospects, and Hollow Rebates
In a bombshell report dated October 10, 2024, the Parliamentary Budget Officer (PBO) exposes the cold reality of Trudeau’s carbon tax policy: it’s making life harder for middle-class Canadians. While the Prime Minister continues to tout the virtues of his climate plan, the PBO’s findings show that far from protecting the environment, the federal fuel charge is crippling Canadian families—especially those in the middle income brackets.
Let’s be clear: Trudeau’s carbon tax isn’t just a simple “polluter pays” system. According to the PBO’s distributional analysis of the federal fuel charge, average Canadian households will face substantial net economic costs by 2030, despite government-issued rebates. Trudeau loves to parade the fact that Canadians get rebates through the Canada Carbon Rebate (CCR), but the numbers tell a different story when you dig into the real economic impact.
The Middle-Class Burden
For middle-class Canadians, the so-called “climate action” of the Trudeau government comes with serious consequences. By 2030-31, the carbon price will hit $170 per tonne, with devastating effects on household incomes. Even though rebates are supposed to offset the pain, the PBO’s analysis shows that once you factor in the economic fallout—job losses, reduced wages, and weaker investments—middle-class families end up worse off.
For example, in Ontario, a province Trudeau regularly visits to promote his policies, middle-income households will face steep costs. According to the PBO, households in the third quintile (middle income) will see $588 in net costs—and that’s just after factoring in rebates. When you look at the combined hit from job losses and reduced income, the overall financial burden for middle-class families grows even larger.
In Saskatchewan, things are even more dire. The average household in the third income quintile will suffer from a $1,205 net loss by 2030-31. For working families who depend on stable employment in energy, agriculture, and manufacturing, this tax punishes them more than it rewards them.
Trudeau’s Rebate Shell Game
Trudeau’s government spins the carbon rebate as some kind of economic miracle, suggesting families get back more than they pay. But as the PBO’s report shows, this claim is little more than political smoke and mirrors. The rebates might look good on paper for the lowest-income Canadians, but for everyone else—especially middle-income earners—it’s a losing game.
Even with rebates factored in, the economic damage of Trudeau’s carbon tax results in net losses for most families. By 2030, the federal fuel charge will contribute to an overall reduction of 0.6% in real GDP across the backstop provinces, which excludes Quebec and British Columbia. Middle-class families are stuck dealing with reduced employment opportunities, lower investment incomes, and weaker wage growth—all while Trudeau’s elite friends and the liberal establishment pat themselves on the back for “going green”.
Crushing Investments and Jobs
What Trudeau doesn’t want you to know is that this tax doesn’t just hurt family finances. It’s killing jobs. The PBO report shows that by 2030, the carbon tax will reduce capital income—that’s the money people earn from investments—by as much as 2.4% in provinces like Alberta. Worse, it will slash labor income—the wages people depend on—by over 1.4% in places like Saskatchewan. That’s devastating for middle-income earners whose livelihoods depend on industries targeted by the Liberals’ climate agenda.
While low-income Canadians might see minimal gains from Trudeau’s rebates, middle-class families face the harsh reality of stagnant wages, diminished savings, and a lack of economic opportunity. Trudeau’s tax isn’t just a burden on polluters, it’s a punishment for working Canadians trying to get by.
A Failed Experiment – Just Look at British Columbia
If you want to see where Trudeau’s carbon tax will lead, just look at British Columbia. They’ve had a carbon tax since 2008, and it hasn’t stopped a single wildfire, flood, or heat dome. Did that carbon tax prevent the devastating atmospheric river? Not a chance. This so-called climate solution has done nothing to shield British Columbians from environmental disasters.
Even worse, while the federal government has been collecting billions in carbon tax revenue, they’ve neglected to address the fuel buildup in forests around places like Jasper. For years, experts have warned about the dangers, and yet not a dime of that tax money was spent on controlled burns or preventive measures. The result? Our beautiful Jasper National Park was left to burn. Trudeau and his government couldn’t save our park, they couldn’t save our forests, and they certainly couldn’t save Jasper.
A Sacrifice for Nothing
My fellow Canadians, governments have been trying to control the weather since the dawn of time. Ancient civilizations sacrificed animals to the gods, hoping for good weather. Today, the sacrifice is your money. Yesterday, it was a goat to Zeus; today, it’s a carbon tax to Trudeau. In the end, it’s just another way for the government to take from you, promising it will fix things it simply cannot control.
But here’s the truth: this tax won’t change the climate, won’t stop the floods, and certainly won’t bring back our forests. The only thing it’s doing is draining your household to feed a bloated government. The PBO report is clear: Trudeau’s carbon tax is hurting middle-class families while delivering nothing in return.
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From LifeSiteNews
By Matt Lamb
Chevrolet’s new Christmas ad portrays the ups and downs of family life and the fun of parenting.
Car company Chevrolet launched its Christmas ad campaign with a beautiful commercial that highlights the messiness of raising kids while championing the value of having a family.
The ad, titled “Memory Lane,” shows a middle-aged married couple loading up their decades-old Chevy Suburban with food to head off to a family dinner. At this point, the ad switches between the couple in the present day and grainy, recorder-quality video of family memories.
It begins with a young family, including a baby, loading up into the same car. As the couple begins to drive, the wife and mom is reminiscing. The husband asks her not to “keep all the good stuff” to herself.
From there, the ad reflects on the ups and downs of the family’s life, including memories of mistakenly tying a Christmas tree to the car door and comforting their college-aged daughter about a break-up. As the couple pulls up to a house at the end of their trip, the wife turns to her husband and says: “They never made it easy, did they?”
“Did you want it to be easy?” he replies.
“No, I wanted it to be just like it was,” she says, before they exit the car to meet family, including a grandchild and a new dog that looks like their old dog.
“The greatest journey is the one we take together,” the ad ends.
Commercial accurately portrays that family life isn’t easy, but it is fun
Anyone who has kids knows that it is not always easy raising them, but it is enjoyable. They scream, they cause messes, they wake you up in the middle of the night. And that’s just before they turn five years old. It only gets more enjoyable, and more difficult, as they age (from what I can tell).
Even if you do not have kids, you can probably remember your own life and think about the ways you caused your parents headaches (getting a bad grade in a class or breaking the curfew), but also the ways you brought them joy (graduating from college, joining the military, or getting married).
The truth is that families are messy, and no one is guaranteed an easy life. But the important thing is to persevere by sticking together.
Another thing that stuck out is that both parents remained married throughout their life and are celebrating Christmas with both of their children.
One of the kids did not avoid Christmas because dad voted for Trump or because mom has strongly held religious beliefs – something that does happen to the glee (and detriment) of leftist writers. The entire family, not just those who perfectly agree with each other, were together for the holidays. In fact, this is one way we honor our father and mother, by getting together over the holidays and at other family gatherings.
As a parent myself, I sometimes wish it would be “easy,” but the truth is the ups and downs are what make it enjoyable.
Thank you to Chevy for reminding me, and other parents, of this lesson.
It’s More Horrifying Than Anyone Will Admit
There is no dignity in a society that sees the suffering and chooses to eliminate the sufferer instead of the suffering.
Canada finally released its 2024 MAiD (state sanctioned murder) report, shockingly quiet so people wouldn’t see it. Right after the budget, and right before Christmas. A late-November drop, as if 16,499 state-sanctioned murders were an administrative side note instead of a national alarm bell, one that should be absolutely terrifying Canadians. That number is a almost a 7% increase!!! from the year prior. Euthanasia now accounts for 5.1% of all deaths in the country. Let that sit for a minute. More than one out of every twenty deaths in Canada is no longer natural, accidental, or medical it’s chosen, coerced, approved, and facilitated by the state.
Now the most disturbing trend isn’t the overall rise. It’s the massive increase in Track 2 deaths, these are people who were NOT AT ALL terminally ill. Those deaths rose by 17%.
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17%!
Track 2 is MAiD’s (state sanctioned murder) quiet backdoor, one that almost anyone can access. People who aren’t dying, but are suffering, disabled, lonely, financially struggling, or simply worn down by a system that failed to care for them. The government likes to use sterile language “grievous and irremediable condition” but it refuses to define it. That ambiguity isn’t an accident. It’s policy. It’s how they kill people without justification.
The numbers don’t lie, even when the government tries to hide them. Since legalization, Canada has recorded 76,475 deaths by MAiD up to the end of 2024. Realistically, by today we’re closing in on 92,000.
That’s the population of a mid-sized city. Gone.
92,000 human beings. Gone, before their time all because CAMAP (Canadian Association of MAiD Assessors and Providers) convinced people who were suffering they were too damn weak to try.
Quebec leads the country with 5,998 deaths in 2024. Ontario follows with 4,944, then British Columbia at 2,997. Even these numbers don’t match what provincial reports say. Quebec claims 6,058. BC says 3,000. Why the discrepancy? No one seems eager to answer.
When the data moves faster than the government’s honesty, you know something’s off and something been off for a minute now.
Track 2 deaths have always been the canary in the coal mine, yet no ones seems to care unless it’s one of their family members. Those not tied to terminal illness hit 732 cases in 2024. In 2021 there were 224. The curve isn’t just rising; it’s accelerating at a pace that will destroy a country.
And who are these people?
They’re younger. They’re more often women. They’re overwhelmingly people living with disabilities. They are Canadians who needed support and instead got a syringe. More than 61% of Track 2 deaths were people living with disabilities. Yet many disabled Canadians don’t even identify as disabled on paper. So the real number? Higher. Much higher.
Every major reason listed for choosing MAiD (state sanctioned murder) loss of independence, loss of mobility, inability to participate in meaningful activities is directly tied to disability or chronic health issues. When your supports are stripped, “choice” becomes a fiction.
The “other” category, is where any sort of accountability goes to die in this country along with our souls. The most suspicious data point continues to grow unnoticed. The “other” category is over 46% of disabled Track 1 deaths and 56% of disabled Track 2 deaths are filed under “other.”
What’s in “other”?
Organ failure. Autoimmune disease. Frailty. Chronic pain. Diabetes. Mental disorders.
In any honest system, these would not be “miscellaneous.” In Canada’s system, they are conveniently undefined so nothing can be challenged.
People choosing Track 2 death are more likely to be poor, living in struggling neighbourhoods, in institutions and on disability. This isn’t compassion. It’s triage disguised as mercy. When life becomes unaffordable, MAiD (state sanctioned murder) becomes the “cheap solution.”
One of the leading causes of this choice to die is loneliness….this part should haunt every Canadian with a conscience. The report tries to downplay loneliness as a factor, but the numbers betray reality:
21.9% of Track 1 deaths
44.7% of Track 2 deaths
…were tied single handedly to loneliness and isolation.
That’s at least 3,800 people in 2024 who died because they were alone.
But anyone who’s worked with veterans, trauma survivors, or the disabled knows the truth loneliness is wildly underreported. People list their medical condition to qualify. But loneliness and despair? That’s the gasoline soaking everything underneath.
Track 2 recipients were three times more likely to be receiving mental health or social service support compared to Track 1. The mental illness “safeguards”? They’re paper-thin.
The government wants us to believe MAiD (state sanctioned murder) is about dignity. But dignity is a human experience, not a checkbox. Dignity requires connection, support, purpose, safety. None of those can be injected into a vein.
MAiD (state sanctioned murder) was sold as a last resort for the dying. It is now an early exit for the neglected. There is no integrity in a system where people choose death because life became bureaucratically inconvenient. There is no compassion in telling a disabled person the waitlist for care is years but death is available next Tuesday. There is no dignity in a society that sees the suffering and chooses to eliminate the sufferer instead of the suffering.
Parliament is currently debating Bill C-218, which would stop the expansion of MAiD for mental illness. Given what the data shows, mental illness is already driving many Track 2 deaths, even though it isn’t technically allowed on its own.
Canada is no longer drifting, its fully submerged in the dark and this is something that can’t be undone once normalized. MAiD (state sanctioned murder) is no longer a rare compassionate exception. It is becoming a cultural default for people society doesn’t know how to support.
If we don’t reverse this slide now, we’ll look back and wonder how we ever confused convenience with compassion. This system isn’t mercy. It’s abandonment dressed up as policy.
The conversation needs to get louder, not gentler and I plan to make it so loud the pro death cult’s ears bleed.
KELSI SHEREN
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