Debate should be about spending carbon tax revenues
Dear Prime Minster Justin Trudeau, B.C. Premier David Eby, Green Party leader Elizabeth May, NDP leader Jagmeet Singh, and Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre:
Recent letters to our Cowichan Valley Citizen newspaper saw locals cogently connecting dots toward crucially building our green future.
North Cowichanian Peter Lake stresses that our controversial carbon taxes work, and they make environmental and inflationary sense according to economists studying carbon-tax impacts on Canadians.
Lake also submits British Columbian taxpayers will save money by logically resurrecting our Island’s defunct rail transportation system (on publicly owned tracks), not expanding our busy Malahat Highway.
Hence, we suggest carbon busting by spending some of those taxes repairing Island tracks and buying trains for hauling commuters, tourists and others instead of genuflecting to more vehicle pollution.
Furthermore, Duncanite John Money urges our governments to use carbon-tax revenues to build/buy a water-bomber fleet to snuff our growing number of climate change-fuelled wildfires destroying timber, habitat and communities.
We certainly agree with both gentlemen.
Rather than political posturing about how and why our carbon tax is collected and used, Canadians expect our wise leaders to co-operate about finding answers to busting carbon sources.
That means green thinking. Trains and water bombers are just two ideas about eco-creatively using carbon taxes that remind Canucks about toxic perils of rampant fossil-fuel use.
Yours in creative carbon-tax uses,
Peter W. Rusland
North Cowichan