THE REAL COSTS OF TRUDEAU'S CARBON TAX

 Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s carbon tax, which rose by 25% to $50 per tonne of greenhouse gas emissions on Friday, doesn’t just increase the cost of gasoline.

The tax, which came into effect in 2019 at $20 per tonne and increases annually on April 1, applies to 22 types of fossil fuel energy.

That’s why the cost of almost everything goes up when the carbon tax increases, because almost all goods and services use fossil fuel energy.

Parliamentary Budget Officer Yves Giroux says 60% of households in the four provinces where the federal carbon tax applies — Ontario, Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba — pay more in carbon taxes than they get in tax rebates.

TRUDEAU LIBERALS OBSESSED WITH CENSORING INTERNET

    “Social media companies need to do more,” said Joly, as part of her answer. “They need to make sure they recognize states have jurisdiction over them and that they’re not technology platforms but they’re content producers. It is our way collectively to make sure that we can really be able to have strong democracies in the future because this war is being fought with 21st century tools including social media.”
   See what they’re doing here? They argue, correctly, that Vladimir Putin’s propaganda machine is pushing false narratives but then in the next breath make the massive leap that the solution is to bring in permanent changes to Canadian legislation that will impact things that have nothing to do with the war in Ukraine.
   Joly reportedly plans to announce more formal measures soon and you can bet their comms plan is to denounce anyone who has a problem with censoring the Internet in Canada as a pro-Putin stooge. The shamelessness is so transparent. But there will no doubt be a phalanx of Liberal supporters ready to run with this line of attack.

MORE SCANDALS ENVELOP THE FBI

A 2019 internal audit of the FBI detected hundreds of violations related to “sensitive investigative matters,” which are investigations into elected officials, candidates, or political organizations. A review of 353 sensitive cases uncovered 747 violations. “A majority of the cases studied, 191, involved domestic public officials,” the Washington Times reported this month. “Dozens of cases involved religious organizations or their prominent members, and dozens of cases involved domestic political organizations and individuals. Ten cases involved domestic political candidates, and 11 cases involved news media.” Senator Charles Grassley (R-Iowa) said on Twitter that he and Senator Richard Durbin (D-Ill.) are “demanding answers +inspector general investigation CANT [sic] TOLERATE ‘mistakes’ of FBI trampling constitutional rights.”

CHINA TAKES OVER SOLOMON ISLANDS

On March 25, the Solomon Islands announced it was "expanding" security arrangements, "diversifying the country's security partnership including with China."

The announcement was defensive. The day before, opponents of a security pact with China leaked what was labeled a "draft" agreement. Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare's government did not confirm the authenticity of the leaked document, but observers believe he intends that version to be final. Australia, which expressed "great concern," confirmed the draft as authentic.

The pact, titled "Framework Agreement Between the Government of the People's Republic of China and the Government of Solomon Islands on Security Cooperation," highlights a disturbing trend: China, after years of persistent commercial, diplomatic, and military efforts, is taking over the Pacific.

RIGHT BACK ATCHA, LEFTY HYPOCRITES

    Liberal politicians and legacy media journalists have been in an uproar since Conservative MP Rachael Thomas announced on Monday in the House of Commons that “many Canadians” view Prime Minister Justin Trudeau as a dictator.
     Soon after Thomas made the comment, Liberal politicians and legacy media journalists feigned outrage and denounced the statement as radical and unparliamentary.
    However – and as pointed out by Conservative commentator Stephen Taylor in a Twitter thread – the Liberals and the media, including Barton, seemed fine calling former prime minister Stephen Harper a dictator for years.
   True North has gathered numerous examples of when left-wing politicians and legacy media either called Harper a dictator or took no issue with the label.

CALIFORNIA CORPORATE DIVERSITY LAW RULED UNCONSTITUTIONAL

 A Los Angeles judge ruled Friday that California’s landmark law mandating that corporations diversify their boards with members from certain racial, ethnic or LGBT groups is unconstitutional.

The brief ruling granted summary judgment to Judicial Watch, a conservative legal group that sought a permanent injunction against the measure that was signed into law last year. The ruling didn't explain the judge's reasoning.

The measure requires corporate boards of publicly traded companies with a main executive office in California to have a member from an “underrepresented community,” including LGBT, Black, Latino, Asian, Native American or Pacific Islander.

TRUDEAU'S GIFT TO PUTIN

   Ross McKitrick You might have thought the Russo-Ukrainian War would have convinced the Trudeau government to hit pause on its climate-change plans. Europeans are suddenly desperate to find other sources of energy so they can scale back imports from Russia. We can’t help them, unfortunately, because of our long embrace of the don’t-build-anything-anywhere school of economic development. But the United States can, using its liquified natural gas (LNG) export infrastructure. That means the U.S. must import more to make up for what it diverts out of its domestic market. Where will they look? To us, among other places. That’s what we used to call an opportunity.
    Not anymore. Instead, Ottawa has just released a 271-page Emission Reduction Plan (ERP) that calls on our oil and gas sector to cut emissions by 31 per cent below 2005 levels in the next eight years, which is 42 per cent below current levels. It also wants the sector to get to “net-zero” by 2050. Given the current technological limits of carbon capture and other buzzwords, that means either ceasing operations altogether or using production methods that will price producers out of the world market — thus leaving a clear field for Russia, among others, to expand its dominance in world energy markets in the years ahead.  Global emissions won’t decline mind you; people will just get their energy from dictators while democracies such as Canada exit the market.