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Tuesday, September 30, 2025

LEVY: Progressives silent after innocent mother gunned down outside Toronto injection site

By
Sue-Ann Levy
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A 44-year-old mother of two was innocently walking along Toronto’s Queen St. East last Friday afternoon when she was gunned down by a trio of men likely having a turf battle over a drug deal.

Tragically, Karolina Huebner-Makurat, a mother of two young girls, succumbed to her injuries en route to hospital.

She was caught in the crossfire while walking to get lunch, reports say.

Toronto police have indicated they are looking for three men, who opened fire following a heated altercation outside the South Riverdale Community Centre, which is home to a safe injection site.

Although they released images Sunday, even Toronto police did not mention the suspects were all black.

Few legacy media reports — in particular the CBC — have indicated that the suspected shooters are black, even though a manhunt is on for them. 

Save for one media report, no connections have been drawn between the brazen noontime shooting and its location outside a safe injection site, one of many where I’ve repeatedly seen drug dealers preying on vulnerable addicts. 

The silence from progressive politicians — who’ve created this Wild West atmosphere with their drug-enabling policies — has been deafening since Friday afternoon.

The councillor for the area, Paula Fletcher, tweeted a message of condolence:

Peter Tabuns, NDP MPP for the area, also made a weak attempt at recognizing the tragedy, as did the federal MP for the area.

Nothing has been forthcoming from any of the politicians –in particular federal like my own MP Carolyn Bennett or Prime Minister Justin Trudeau himself – who have enabled this terrible approach to drug addiction. 

Aside from retweeting Fletcher’s comment, Chow said nothing while glad-handing as if she was already mayor at a number of festivals this weekend, including The Taste of Lawrence and the Toronto Art Fair.

The progressives and activists – who tweeted at the drop of a hat about the stabbing in the diversity class at the University of Waterloo Ontario in late June – have also been silent. They haven’t even had the gumption to admit this was a terrible tragedy.

That’s because these classless cowards are the ones to blame for this tragedy. They have coddled addicts and criminals and have operated under the deluded belief that safe injection sites help addicts survive.

They’ve been so short-sighted about their harm production policies that they never anticipated the sites would become drug dens infested by dealers preying on addicts and creating lawlessness throughout the neighbourhoods where they are located.

One news report characterized the horrifying increase in violent crime in the South Riverdale neighbourhood where the poor mom was gunned down–a direct result of the safe injection site.

Add to that our revolving door catch-and-release policies and a justice system that panders to the criminals, rather than the victims, and we have an accident waiting to happen.

Well, it happened and I for one, am angry, at the cavalier, short-sighted attitude of the legacy media and the activists and politicians for which they run interference.

I know it will only get worse under the radical, soft-on-crime policies of mayor-elect Chow.

When asked about another violent stabbing the day before on the TTC – a black homeless man has been arrested – she muttered rather inarticulately about the need for more social workers to “deescalate issues” on transit.

“I met with the chair of the TTC Jon Burnside … he talked about what the TTC is doing to provide more safety…he talked about social workers in the TTC to support people who have different issues,” she said. “It’s a bit too early to answer the question.”

If her bordering-on illiterate response and lack of knowledge of what is truly going on is any indication, the citizens of Toronto are in for a truly tough three years.

Meanwhile, there is a GoFundMe site set up to help the family impacted by this tragedy. 

The Daily Brief | Trudeau fails to woo crowd at Calgary Stampede

By
Rachel Parker
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Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre took aim at Prime Minister Justin Trudeau as both leaders attended the Calgary Stampede over the weekend.

And Canadians from across the country are feeling the impact of the Trudeau government’s second carbon tax at the gas pumps.

Plus, the Canadian Armed Forces are struggling to recruit new members – their solution? More woke policies.

Tune into The Daily Brief with Rachel Emmanuel and Cosmin Dzsurdzsa!

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Poilievre takes aim at Trudeau at Calgary Stampede

By
Rachel Parker
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Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre said Prime Minister Justin Trudeau opposes liberalism by encroaching on Canadians’ freedoms at every corner. 

Speaking at a Conservative Party of Canada Calgary Stampede event on Saturday evening, Poilievre said Liberals used to believe in liberty while Conservatives believed in conserving it. 

“What we see with Justin Trudeau today is an entirely different ideological creature,” Poilievre said. 

“This is not a more extreme form of liberalism. This is the opposite of liberalism. Wokism is about nothing more than control, more power in his hands, less freedom for the people.”

Instead of a divide and conquer mentality, “we should unite for freedom in this country,” the Conservative leader said. 

Poilievre also took aim at Trudeau’s carbon taxes – including the recently-implemented Clean Fuel Standard – and the government’s climate agenda, which he claims has destroyed Alberta’ energy sector.

“I will put an end once and for all to the Trudeau mentality that the West should just pay up and shut up,” he said.

“This is the beating heart of our economy. Western Canadians are among the most patriotic of all Canadians. They deserve to be treated with respect.” 

Poilievre, who grew up in Calgary, also said Trudeau didn’t feel at home while visiting Alberta’s annual stampede. 

“He was going around town, trying to find somebody who would support his 61 cent a litre carbon tax and no one was buying in,” he said. “Our excellent and very strong Premier Danielle Smith told him exactly where to go.”

Trudeau had a few embarrassing moments while visiting the Stampede this year, including flipping an undercooked pancake which then splattered all over the griddle. 

While at the Ismaili Muslim breakfast, Trudeau promoted the government’s childcare and economic policies. 

“These are things that we know are not a choice between economic growth and helping people. It’s that you create economic growth by helping people,” Trudeau said. 

The prime minister was also booed while speaking at a Liberal rally on Saturday morning, including by one protester who yelled, “Get the WEF out of Canada.” 

BONOKOSKI: In what world is the inflation crisis “good news for Canadians?”

By
Mark Bonokoski
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It took the Second World War to end the Great Depression of the early 1930s when a full quarter of Canadians were unemployed, starving, and often homeless.

The war demanded people and resources — people to be soldiers, workers and the manufacturers of goods, with the world in conflict lifting up Canada by the bootstraps.

Those who lived through the Depression earned a dollar a day if they worked at all.

Even seemingly cheap foods – 25 cents a pound for sirloin steak, 10 cents for a bottle of milk, 31 cents for a dozen eggs – were out of reach for millions of Canadians.

Canada, its economy dependent largely on agriculture, dovetailed even more due to the drought in the Prairies and the accompanying Dust Bowl.

It was hell on earth.

it’s been a long time since Yours Truly worked part-time behind the meat counter of Dominion Stores during my high school years of the 1960s, but there were still those who waited until closing time on Saturdays to get a bargain price on hamburger.

But no one complained of high food prices back then, and certainly not like the complaints of today where the cost of grocery staples has increased by four to five times the rate of inflation.

The latest Statistics Canada Monthly Average Retails Prices for Selected Products data was released last week with details of the dramatic price increases year over year.

Most Canadians were already aware it would not be the best of news because their grocery bill receipt is the tale of that tape.

StatsCan zeroed in on this.

One example is grapes. Canadian households who buy grapes are paying 34% more than they were in October 2022, with prices going from $5.28 to $10.14 per kilogram. This is the highest price  in over a year, with the cost being $6.64 in July 2022.

Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland said the latest Consumer Price Index report – where cost averages are based on direct comparisons such as apples to apples or grapes to grapes – was somehow “good news for Canadians.”

“Inflation in Canada is down to 3.4% the lowest rate in nearly two years,” said Freeland posted on Twitter June 27.

“This is good news for Canadians and good news for the Canadian economy.”

Odds are good, however, that the Bank of Canada will soon raise interest rates again, which will ring the bankruptcy bell in even more economic sectors beyond home ownership.

The data was released at the same time the Trudeau government issued its “grocery rebate,” a one-time payment to lower-earning Canadians who normally receive the GST credit.

According to the Parliamentary Budget Office, this piece of Trudeau government largesse will cost the taxpayer $2.4 billion.

Basic items like hamburger, once a 72 cents-a-kilo bargain at closing time at Dominion Store back in the 1960s. has gone from $10.64 per kilo this time last year, to $11.23 per kilo this month

In one month, that’s a 5% increase.

“The data source is scanner data obtained directly from Canadian retailers,” indicated StatsCan, stating the price report is intended to reflect true costs of “items commonly purchased by Canadian consumers,” with price increases reflecting the national averages.

“Transaction data provide a comprehensive electronic record of transactions made through a retailer’s point of sale system and contain relevant pricing information,” said StatsCan.

Butter for the bun for that hamburger? It has gone from $4.97 for a one-pound block in September 2022, to $6.42 per pound in July 2023, a 22% increase.

Romaine? It’s gone from $2 a head in July of last year to $3.54 a head today, for an increase for a 77% increase.

There’s no such thing as a “cheap” hamburger anymore.

Financial optimism is declining: TransUnion

By
Neil Sharma
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Source: Pixaby

More than half of Canadian consumers don’t feel like their wages can keep up with inflation and over a third are saving money in anticipation of a recession, says a report from TransUnion.

The credit reporting agency’s Consumer Pulse Q2 2023 revealed that 55% of consumers felt like their incomes couldn’t withstand the inflation crisis.

Forty-two percent of consumers who were optimistic about their finances last quarter, of whom 53% were Gen Z and 48% were millennials, reported the most confidence.

However, confidence is worsening among millennials, of whom 53% reported optimism about their finances during the second quarter of last year, owing to the toll that worsening economic conditions have taken on younger income earners in the last year.

Fifty-seven percent of consumers reported feeling confident about their finances in the second quarter of this year, but that’s also down from 59% during the same period last year.

Among respondents of all ages, 34% are saving money in preparation for what they believe is an imminent recession.

That’s in spite of records savings during the pandemic—Canadian households had over $90 billion of excess cash in November 2020, and that figure broke $200 billion the following April—much of which has been spent, the TransUnion report said.

Gen Z and millennials, at 50% and 39%, respectively, were the largest cohorts in savings mode, further indicating that the country’s wariest income earners are its youngest.

Thirty-two percent of respondents were incapable of paying their bills in full last quarter, among whom 38% planned to make partial payments. TransUnion’s report said that was consistent with recent research showing that Canadians have been making diminishing credit debt payments.

As a result, the number of Canadian consumers whose debt balances carry over into the next month has been growing, the report added.

The Alberta Roundup | CBC ‘regrets’ publishing fake news

By
Rachel Parker
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This week on the Alberta Roundup with Rachel Emmanuel, Rachel analyzes what CBC News got wrong earlier this year and why their response doesn’t go far enough.

Rachel also reveals the hidden cost to Canadian taxpayers in Bill C-18. Finally, Rachel reads some of your comments from last week.

Tune into the Alberta Roundup now!

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How did we get here? A timeline on the Online News Act fiasco

By
Noah Jarvis
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Recently, the Trudeau government’s controversial piece of legislation Bill C-18 was given royal assent, provoking Google and Meta to block Canadian news content from their platforms. 

Google and Meta have warned the government on multiple occasions that it would take drastic measures should the law pass Parliament. Further, industry experts have criticized the bill, going as far as calling it a “shakedown.” However, the government has insisted on pushing through the controversial piece of legislation. 

The clash between big tech and the Trudeau government has many Canadians wondering how they will access news once the Online News Act comes into effect later this year. 

The Online News Act, or Bill C-18, is the latest piece of Trudeau government legislation meant to expand the Canadian Radio and Telecommunications Commission’s (CRTC) regulatory reach over the internet and Canadian news media.

Tabled in the House of Commons on April 5, 2022 by Canadian Heritage Minister Pablo Rodriguez and given royal assent on June 22, 2023, C-18 seeks to force social media platforms and search engines like Facebook and Google to enter into contracts with news outlets for the privilege of hosting links to their articles and news content – prompting Google and others to refer to the bill as a “link tax.” 

The bill was mainly supported by News Media Canada – a lobbying group representing over 500 legacy media outlets including but not limited to TorStar (the Toronto Star, Hamilton Spectator, etc), Postmedia (National Post, Toronto Sun, etc), and the Globe & Mail. 

Canadian legacy media claims market-dominating search engines and social media platforms like Google search, Facebook, and Instagram are unfairly profiting off of the news content of Canadians outlets, siphoning off advertiser revenue which would have otherwise been spent on traditional media. 

News Media Canada successfully lobbied the Trudeau government into tabling legislation that would have the CRTC oversee negotiations between legacy media corporations and big tech, compensating the news sites for links posted to search engines and social media. 

“We thank Pablo Rodriguez, Minister of Canadian Heritage, and his officials for working diligently and quickly to bring forward legislation that will ensure we have a fiercely independent and commercially viable news publishing sector, where local community news thrives alongside a vibrant open web,” said News Media Canada CEO Paul Deegan upon C-18’s introduction in the House of Commons. 

The tech giants argue they have done enough to support Canadian news through their various initiatives and programs.

Google says that they’ve already negotiated agreements with 150 Canadian news publications as part of their News Showcase program, whereby they’ve linked to Canadian outlets 3.6 billion times in 2022 at no charge. Google estimates that this traffic is valued at $250 million annually.

Meta, on the other hand, say they provide Canadian news outlets $230 million in value through the 1.9 billion link clicks in the last 12 months on Facebook. 

On top of that, Meta says they’ve invested approximately $18 million dollars in Canadian news organizations through partnerships and programs. 

During the legislative process, Google, Meta, and industry experts voiced their concerns with the legislation.

University of Ottawa law professor Michael Geist has been a consistent critic of the Online News Act.

“The end goal is negotiated payments for links, backed by the threat of a one-sided arbitration process overseen by the CRTC in which the arbitration panel can simply reject offers if it believes it fails to meet the government’s policy objectives,” said Geist.

“That isn’t a commercial deal, it is a shakedown.”

In October 2022, Meta warned the Trudeau government that they intended to block news content in Canada if the Liberals went forward with passing the Online News Act. From the standpoint of big tech, blocking Canadian news content is an easy way out of having to strike costly contracts with failing legacy companies while still fully complying with the legislation.  

“Faced with adverse legislation that is based on false assumptions that defy the logic of how Facebook works, we feel it is important to be transparent about the possibility that we may be forced to consider whether we continue to allow the sharing of news content in Canada,” said Meta’s media partnerships head Marc Dinsdale.

Meta reiterated its threat to block Canadian news content in May 2023 before proceeding with tests selectively blocking Quebec news content in mid-June. 

Google provided testimony to the House of Commons heritage committee where they challenged the government on the principle that search engines should have to provide payment to news sites for links. 

The company also criticized the bill’s lack of specificity over which organizations qualify as an eligible news business and warned that C-18 would benefit large publishers to the detriment of smaller publishers. 

In February 2023, Google began to test their ability to block access to Canadian news running a test of a small segment of Canadians, a move critics called “unsurprising.”

A poll commissioned by Google and released on October 14, 2022 revealed that a plurality of Canadians agree that social media platforms should not have to pay news organizations for links shared on their platforms, and search engines should not have to pay for links available through their search function.

Despite this, the Trudeau government moved ahead with the Online News Act as Bill C-18 passed in the House of Commons on December 14, 2022, passed the Senate on June 15, 2023, and became law on June 22nd. 

“Thanks to the Online News Act, newsrooms across the country will now be able to negotiate fairly for compensation when their work appears on the biggest digital platforms,” said heritage minister Rodriguez upon C-18 receiving royal assent. 

However, Meta and Google immediately took action. 

“Today, we are confirming that news availability will be ended on Facebook and Instagram for all users in Canada prior to the Online News Act (Bill C-18) taking effect,” reads Meta’s statement on C-18.

Then Google said that they too would be removing Canadian news links from its search and news sections.

“We’re disappointed it has come to this. We don’t take this decision or its impacts lightly and believe it’s important to be transparent with Canadian publishers and our users as early as possible,” said Google’s global affairs president Kent Walker. 

“The unprecedented decision to put a price on links (a so-called ‘link tax’) creates uncertainty for our products and exposes us to uncapped financial liability simply for facilitating Canadians’ access to news from Canadian publishers.”

Heritage Minister Rodriguez has committed to supporting newsrooms with further taxpayer subsidies should Google and Meta move forward with their blocks.

As a retaliatory action against Meta, Rodriguez announced that the federal government would be pulling all of their advertising from Facebook and Instagram, representing $10 million dollars of Facebook’s $117 billion revenue in 2022.

Rodriguez says that the decision to pull advertising from Meta’s platforms and not Google is because Google has remained open to negotiations while Meta has cut contact with Rodriguez’s office for weeks. 

Going forward, the specter of Canadian news content being blocked within the country remains pressing as the government attempts to execute last-minute negotiations to convince Google and Meta to comply with their demands. 

OP-ED: Distorting truth is the wrong way to address residential school legacy

By
Hymie Rubenstein
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Source: (Gleichen, AB), P75-103 S7-184, 1945, General Synod Archives.

An otherwise thoughtful National Post editorial board critique of the strong push by Kimberly Murray, the federally appointed independent special interlocutor on missing Indian Residential School (IRS) children and unmarked graves, to make “residential school denialism” — particularly denying the IRSs were genocidal institutions — a hate crime by pressing the government to consider “legal mechanisms to address such denialism” is spoiled by many erroneous or distorted assertions.

Kamloops Indian Residential School students. New York Times.

Murray’s extraordinary charge made in her June 16 Interim Report not only exceeded the mandate she was given by the government but represented an assault on Canada’s Charter of Rights and Freedoms protecting free speech.

But the National Post also fell into the trap of implicitly accepting all the accusations made in the skewed and biased 2015 six-volume final report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada detailing the history, operation, and legacy of the country’s IRSs as gospel truth.

This accounts for the title of my reply, a play on the June 24 National Post piece called, Criminalizing speech the wrong way to address residential school legacy.

According to the Post:

“The history of residential schools is too often the history of abuse and neglect. Children were taken away from their families and forcibly assimilated, often losing their language and culture. Many of them died of disease at much higher rates than the general population, and were frequently buried in nearby cemeteries. Sexual and physical abuse was often rampant. And though some students remembered their school days fondly, the residential school system remains a source of trauma for many Indigenous people.”

I take issue with each of these assertions, not because the editorial board failed to document their content, grounds enough to question them, but because they are both decontextualized and contradicted by a mountain of hard empirical evidence in dozens of essays found here.

If the NP editorial board had bothered to do a bit of fact checking and comparative analysis rather than relying on the sloppy and biased material presented in the 2015 Honouring the Truth, Reconciling for the Future: Summary of the Final Report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada, it would have discovered a different and more nuanced version of their self-certain assertions.

“The history of residential schools is too often the history of abuse and neglect” but so were the lives of indigenous children on their home reserves and non-indigenous children during the same historical period when various institutions like orphanages and sanatoria were full of disadvantaged children.

Few children were involuntarily taken from their families and mass forcible assimilation was impossible because no more than one-third of “Treaty Indians” and one-sixth of all indigenous children attended residential schools for an average of 4.5 years. Those not orphans or the product of neglectful or abusive homes returned to their reserves for long summer vacations renewing or reinforcing their languages and cultures in the process.

Over the course of 500 years of culture contact with Europeans, language and many cultural elements were surely lost or altered but this occurred mainly outside the schools (which only were established with state funding and ultimate control in the last third of the 19th century) because of the need to adapt to the forces of colonialism, modernization, and the loss of traditional livelihood strategies.

Language and culture have also been lost after a generation or two among millions of immigrants to Canada from outside Britain and France, a normal, natural, and healthy process called acculturation – learning about and internalizing the beliefs and practices of a different culture without necessarily, invariably, or suddenly losing all pre-existing ways of thinking and acting — that continues to this day.

Yes, students died of disease at the schools at much higher rates than the general population but at a lower rate than their peers on their home reserve, a fact shown by available records.

The archival data also clearly show that relatively few IRS students were buried anywhere except in their community cemeteries.

Sexual and physical abuse were often rampant but disproportionately at the hands of older students, as the historical record shows. Such abuse has always occurred in boarding schools worldwide and still happens today. Of the IRS sexual abuse by staff, hardly any was at the hands of clergy.

The residential school system remains a source of trauma for many indigenous people because most of them or their ancestors entered school wounded by orphanhood, abuse, and neglect on their home reserves. In their last decades of operation, the growing rate of children emotionally damaged in their home communities converted the schools into informal social welfare facilities. Today, this same huge social welfare problem, one disproportionately affecting indigenous children, is dealt with by foster and group home care.

The Post piece ends with the assertion that Kimberly Murray’s wrongheaded efforts “won’t help Canadians come to terms with the often miserable legacy of the Indian Residential School system.”

My overall take on the Post’s editorial is that exaggerating the history and legacy of the schools won’t help Canadians — indigenous and non-indigenous alike — achieve any degree of reconciliation.

Hymie Rubenstein is editor of The REAL Indigenous Issues newsletter and a retired professor of anthropology, the University of Manitoba

Smith meets with Trudeau, rejects his government’s 2035 net zero target

By
Rachel Parker
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Alberta Premier Danielle Smith informed Prime Minister Justin Trudeau the province won’t comply with his  government’s 2035 target for a net zero power grid.

“I’ve indicated to the prime minister that that is not possible by 2035, which is the federal target, we’ve told that to our experts here,” Smith told reporters Friday afternoon, with Trudeau–who’s in Calgary to attend the annual Stampede– seated next to her.

“We also know that an emissions cap, or emissions reduction, such as one proposed of 42% by 2030 but also results in essentially a production cap which we don’t think is realistic or feasible as well.” 

The Trudeau government wants to achieve net-zero by 2035, while Smith maintains 2050 is more feasible. The premier has not yet offered specific targets, but has indicated that more consultation with industry players is required.

Trudeau said there’s lots of work to be done and that there’s a productive working relationship between “our ministers and our folks.” 

 “You’ve highlighted one of the one of the great achievements we’re looking towards, which is this working group,” he said.

“Where we will be able to sit down and really look at what our experts are saying, what your experts are saying (and) figure out the common ground and figure out the path forward, that’s going to make sure we’re responding to the energy needs of a growing economy around the world while at the same time making sure we get to that net zero by 2050 that we all agree on.”

Smith also asked Trudeau to recall Parliament and find a solution to the BC dockworkers’ strike, adding that he should consider back-to-work legislation. 

Last weekend, 7,400 port workers and members of British Columbia’s International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) officially went on strike.

Over $300 billion worth of goods travel through Canada’s West Coast ports, comprising around 16% of the country’s exports. 

Trudeau didn’t commit to recalling Parliament but said he would “put pressure” on all parties.

“Pressure is mounting day by day and people are really really worried about what things could look like next week.”

Liberals’ new fuel tax already spiking prices at the pump

By
Neil Sharma
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The Trudeau government’s clean fuel regulation has spiked gas pump prices just a week into its implementation.

In Prince Edward Island, the Federal Fuel Charge—introduced by the Department of Environment and Climate Change Canada—is responsible for fuel prices increasing by five cents per litre (cpl) as of July 7, the Island Regulatory and Appeals Commission (IRAC) said.

Furnace oil and diesel also increased by five and a half cents and five cents, respectively.

The clean fuel charge, which the government claims will cut carbon emissions from gas and diesel by 2030, took effect July 1.

CTV reported that fuel costs will increase by 15 (cpl) in the Prairies to as much as 24.45 (cpl) in New Brunswick.

Other regulations, which differ by the province, are already in place, but altogether the carbon and clean fuel regulations could increase the cpl by 45.15 to 56.2.

The program has garnered support from industry associations.

“The policy has a pretty soft start because what it’s requiring is to some extent even less than what is actually being required of other pre-existing policies,” Michael Wolinetz, a partner at Navius Research—a Vancouver-based energy and environment consulting firm—told the CBC.

“We’re not expecting the policy to have any real bite until 2025,” Wolinetz added.

However, joining resistance from Saskatchewan and Atlantic Canada, Alberta’s government isn’t as agreeable.

Premier Danielle Smith has pushed back, citing potential harm to the province’s oil and gas sector, which has come back to life in the last couple of years following its crash nine years ago.

Following a recent address to the Calgary Chamber of Commerce, Smith—citing Alberta’s affordability crisis and quoted the Parliamentary Budget Officer’s estimate that the tax will cost Albertans more than $1,160 a year — told reporters that federal government policies are affecting Albertans’ living standards.

“We’ve got to push back against the federal government on all things that are making life more unaffordable for Albertans,” Smith said.

The Chamber’s president and CEO is in lockstep with Alberta’s premier.

“We’re already dealing with an inflationary situation and this isn’t going to help,” Deborah Yedlin said. “When you see the regulations causing higher costs for businesses and consumers, there’s no pricing power. If you’re a business, you can’t pass that on. If you’re incurring higher and higher costs, that’s something that you’re going to have to deal with in terms of having smaller margins.”

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