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David R. Amos
Surprise Surprise Surprise
Mar Pell
One premier saw the light
Duncan Hunter
Reply to @Mar Pell: LOL...yeah he did...in a minority government propped up by the Greens & a hardcore populist
David R. Amos
Reply to @Duncan Hunter: Methinks Mr Higgs relies on only one dude for his mandate to to survive. If Deputy Premier Gauvin ain't Happy Happy Happy he will cause the PANB to pitch a fit and Humpty Dumpty will take a nosedive Then we will hear from Mr Higgs no more N'esy Pas?
Duncan Hunter
Wow...something flashed between his ears while he was eating his own body weight in stampede pancakes
David R. Amos
John McInerney
A somewhat less than enthusiastic member of the kenney carbon cabal ? However more sensible in not spending taxpayers $$ on a ritual action.
David R. Amos
Roger Jerome
Quebec is in the frey now
David R. Amos
Brent Grywinski
I don't usually congratulate Conservative leaders but good for Mr. Higgs seeing the writing on the wall and saving New Brunswick tax payers their money for better things.
David R. Amos
Jack Richards
It's the fault of Trudeau and Mckenna.
David R. Amos
Mac Isaac
The specious game "plan" of Mr. Higgs is abundantly clear as is evidenced by some of his Con supporters...see below for samples: wait until the federal election and hope and pray that the Cons win. They won't but to the Cons it seems their one and only chance because as most reputable legal scholars have been saying from the getgo: the carbon pricing plan enacted by the Government of Canada is totally legal by any and all criteria. In fact, the one and only reason these Con Premiers are against this form of carbon pricing is 100% because THIS man, THIS Trudeau had the temerity to steal THEIR plan...check back in the very recent past and you will find the Conservatives offered carbon pricing as theirs! Their problem seems also to be that almost everybody accepts the fact we are facing global weather calamities...the Cons either don't accept that fact or want to offer, now that the Government of Canada has "stolen" their plan, some watered down excuse for a "plan"...their other problem is that most other Parties, to lesser or greater degrees, accept carbon pricing as the best way for Canada to contribute to lessening our CO2 emissions. Even in Mr. Higgs own province he has support from only a minority of the population...and that is only because the previous Liberal leader performed in a less than stellar manner prior to and during the election.
"Social Licence" is a term that's been bandied about a lot lately...well Premier Higgs has little or no social licence for some of his policies. In this regard, he's very similar to the previous Premier: THEY JUST DON'T L-I-S-T-E-N! They own hear what they want to hear...from others who share their views and values and sundry other sycophants. It's no way to govern.
Harvey Bishop
Kelly Sherrard
All talk, no action..... enough said
David R. Amos
Jim Redmond
Oooo --- a tiny province abandons the fight against the Mr. Trudeau (he's not my Prime Minister) carbon revenue expropriation scheme --- New Brunswick is doing that so it can get a $14.5MM climate change research center like PEI did.
Steph Millar
Jim Redmond
He prefers a $14.5MM climate change research center like PEI just got --- pure greed.
David R. Amos
Buford Wilson
Blaine is still opposed to the carbon tax. And rightly so.
Justin is tearing our country apart
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Mo Bennet
David Raymond Amos @DavidRayAmos
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/blaine-higgs-carbon-tax-court-1.5204591
New Brunswick Premier Blaine Higgs abandons planned carbon tax court fight
141 Comments
David R. Amos
Surprise Surprise Surprise
Mar Pell
One premier saw the light
Duncan Hunter
Reply to @Mar Pell: LOL...yeah he did...in a minority government propped up by the Greens & a hardcore populist
David R. Amos
Reply to @Duncan Hunter: Methinks Mr Higgs relies on only one dude for his mandate to to survive. If Deputy Premier Gauvin ain't Happy Happy Happy he will cause the PANB to pitch a fit and Humpty Dumpty will take a nosedive Then we will hear from Mr Higgs no more N'esy Pas?
Duncan Hunter
Wow...something flashed between his ears while he was eating his own body weight in stampede pancakes
David R. Amos
Reply to @Duncan Hunter: Nope Methinks Vickers would agree that it was his plan all along but then Vickers would agree with anything N'esy Pas?
John McInerney
A somewhat less than enthusiastic member of the kenney carbon cabal ? However more sensible in not spending taxpayers $$ on a ritual action.
David R. Amos
Reply to @John McInerney: Methinks some folks are too easily hoodwinked if they can fall for the rhetoric of Mr Higgs N'esy Pas?
Roger Jerome
Quebec is in the frey now
David R. Amos
Reply to @Roger Jerome: Methinks Quebeckers always do what is best for the French Quebec N'esy Pas?
Brent Grywinski
I don't usually congratulate Conservative leaders but good for Mr. Higgs seeing the writing on the wall and saving New Brunswick tax payers their money for better things.
David R. Amos
Reply to @Brent Grywinski: Yea Rght
Jack Richards
It's the fault of Trudeau and Mckenna.
David R. Amos
Reply to @Jack Richards: Of course
Mac Isaac
The specious game "plan" of Mr. Higgs is abundantly clear as is evidenced by some of his Con supporters...see below for samples: wait until the federal election and hope and pray that the Cons win. They won't but to the Cons it seems their one and only chance because as most reputable legal scholars have been saying from the getgo: the carbon pricing plan enacted by the Government of Canada is totally legal by any and all criteria. In fact, the one and only reason these Con Premiers are against this form of carbon pricing is 100% because THIS man, THIS Trudeau had the temerity to steal THEIR plan...check back in the very recent past and you will find the Conservatives offered carbon pricing as theirs! Their problem seems also to be that almost everybody accepts the fact we are facing global weather calamities...the Cons either don't accept that fact or want to offer, now that the Government of Canada has "stolen" their plan, some watered down excuse for a "plan"...their other problem is that most other Parties, to lesser or greater degrees, accept carbon pricing as the best way for Canada to contribute to lessening our CO2 emissions. Even in Mr. Higgs own province he has support from only a minority of the population...and that is only because the previous Liberal leader performed in a less than stellar manner prior to and during the election.
"Social Licence" is a term that's been bandied about a lot lately...well Premier Higgs has little or no social licence for some of his policies. In this regard, he's very similar to the previous Premier: THEY JUST DON'T L-I-S-T-E-N! They own hear what they want to hear...from others who share their views and values and sundry other sycophants. It's no way to govern.
Harvey Bishop
Reply to @Mac Isaac: How correct you are. Ed Stelmach and Gordon Campbell put in carbon taxes before the federal Liberals did. Preston Manning supports the carbon tax. Former Ontario PC leader, Patrick Brown supports the carbon tax. CPC MP, Michael Chong, supports the carbon tax. Jason Kenney does too, but makes people believe otherwise. So does Andrew Scheer. The oil companies said they supported a carbon tax, way before Justin Trudeau was in power. Preston Manning said that a carbon tax fits in with Conservative principles.
David R. Amos
Reply to @Mac Isaac: "Social Licence" is a term that's been bandied about a lot lately."
Methinks you just used it too N'esy Pas?
Kelly Sherrard
All talk, no action..... enough said
David R. Amos
Reply to @kelly sherrard: Not really
Jim Redmond
Oooo --- a tiny province abandons the fight against the Mr. Trudeau (he's not my Prime Minister) carbon revenue expropriation scheme --- New Brunswick is doing that so it can get a $14.5MM climate change research center like PEI did.
Steph Millar
Reply to @Jim Redmond: If you're not Canadian why are you clogging up this board?
David R. Amos
Reply to @Steph Millar: Methinks he thinks he is a special kind of Canadian Nesy Pas?
Jim Redmond
He prefers a $14.5MM climate change research center like PEI just got --- pure greed.
David R. Amos
Reply to @Jim Redmond: Cry me a river
Buford Wilson
Blaine is still opposed to the carbon tax. And rightly so.
Justin is tearing our country apart
.
Mo Bennet
Reply to @Buford Wilson: reformacons will tear it apart even more. remember Steve?
George Bath
Reply to @Buford Wilson: write a song buford, its good therapy for your woes
David R. Amos
Reply to @mo bennett: Steve Who?
New Brunswick Premier Blaine Higgs abandons planned carbon tax court fight
'It wouldn't make sense for me to ... use taxpayer dollars to go and present the same case'
New Brunswick Premier Blaine Higgs is abandoning his government's plans to launch a legal challenge of Ottawa's carbon tax, adding the government will continue intervening in Saskatchewan's ongoing legal challenge of the federal carbon pricing backstop.
"Right now I won't be moving forward separately to have another court challenge in the province, but I will be working with Saskatchewan in their Supreme Court challenge," Higgs told CBC News Network's Power & Politics.
Asked why his government decided not to pursue its own challenge, Higgs said it wouldn't "make sense."
"Why would I, at this point, without being able to present a different argument ... it wouldn't make sense for me to go and use taxpayer dollars to go and present the same case," he told host Vassy Kapelos.
Under the federal government's pan-Canadian climate framework, all provinces were required to come up with a method to price carbon in order to reduce climate-altering carbon emissions. Provinces that failed to deliver their own carbon taxes or cap-and-trade plans became subject to the federal carbon tax backstop at a rate of $20 on every tonne of greenhouse gas emissions in 2019, rising by $10 each year to $50 a tonne by 2022.
That federal backstop has been imposed or announced in Ontario, Manitoba, New Brunswick, Saskatchewan and Alberta. Ontario and Saskatchewan both launched legal challenges of the carbon backstop that failed in provincial courts.
New Brunswick was an intervener in both cases and will remain one in the Saskatchewan case as the province takes the matter to the Supreme Court of Canada.
In the meantime, Higgs said, the attorney general for New Brunswick will meet with counterparts from other provinces to "talk about next steps."
On Dec 5, 2018, Higgs' government stated that "the province will also be launching its own legal challenge" of the federal backstop, but it has made no moves on that front since the announcement was made.
The federal government acknowledges that the backstop will increase the cost of living but has vowed to return the money it raises from it to the people in the provinces where it was collected, in the form of rebates.
Higgs told Kapelos that he objects to the federal carbon tax in part because he fears that federal politicians will find a way to spend that revenue stream down the road.
The federal Liberals say the size of the carbon tax rebate payments will vary by province, and by the number of people in a household, but 80 per cent of Canadians will get more back in the rebate than they pay through the tax.
Those households (defined as 2.6 people) that claimed the incentive on their 2018 tax returns would have received a rebate of $300 in Ontario, $248 in New Brunswick, $336 in Manitoba and $598 in Saskatchewan.
Alberta scrapped its own carbon tax last month. The federal government has since announced the backstop will apply in Alberta starting on Jan. 1, 2020.
The Liberal MP for Fredericton, Matt Decourcey, said premiers opposed to the federal carbon backstop should end their legal attacks on the policy and focus on fighting climate change.
"Two courts have rejected Conservative politicians' attempts to play politics with the federal price on pollution. Premier Higgs should clearly state that he won't intervene in Saskatchewan's appeal to the Supreme Court," said Decourcey.
CBC's Journalistic Standards and Practices"Right now I won't be moving forward separately to have another court challenge in the province, but I will be working with Saskatchewan in their Supreme Court challenge," Higgs told CBC News Network's Power & Politics.
Asked why his government decided not to pursue its own challenge, Higgs said it wouldn't "make sense."
"Why would I, at this point, without being able to present a different argument ... it wouldn't make sense for me to go and use taxpayer dollars to go and present the same case," he told host Vassy Kapelos.
Under the federal government's pan-Canadian climate framework, all provinces were required to come up with a method to price carbon in order to reduce climate-altering carbon emissions. Provinces that failed to deliver their own carbon taxes or cap-and-trade plans became subject to the federal carbon tax backstop at a rate of $20 on every tonne of greenhouse gas emissions in 2019, rising by $10 each year to $50 a tonne by 2022.
New Brunswick was an intervener in both cases and will remain one in the Saskatchewan case as the province takes the matter to the Supreme Court of Canada.
In the meantime, Higgs said, the attorney general for New Brunswick will meet with counterparts from other provinces to "talk about next steps."
N.B. Premier @BlaineHiggs says his province won't move forward with its own legal challenge against the carbon tax, but his attorney general will consider next steps: "It wouldn't make sense for me to use tax payer dollars to go and present the same case" as Ont. and Sask.
On Dec 5, 2018, Higgs' government stated that "the province will also be launching its own legal challenge" of the federal backstop, but it has made no moves on that front since the announcement was made.
The federal government acknowledges that the backstop will increase the cost of living but has vowed to return the money it raises from it to the people in the provinces where it was collected, in the form of rebates.
Higgs told Kapelos that he objects to the federal carbon tax in part because he fears that federal politicians will find a way to spend that revenue stream down the road.
Those households (defined as 2.6 people) that claimed the incentive on their 2018 tax returns would have received a rebate of $300 in Ontario, $248 in New Brunswick, $336 in Manitoba and $598 in Saskatchewan.
Alberta scrapped its own carbon tax last month. The federal government has since announced the backstop will apply in Alberta starting on Jan. 1, 2020.
The Liberal MP for Fredericton, Matt Decourcey, said premiers opposed to the federal carbon backstop should end their legal attacks on the policy and focus on fighting climate change.
"Two courts have rejected Conservative politicians' attempts to play politics with the federal price on pollution. Premier Higgs should clearly state that he won't intervene in Saskatchewan's appeal to the Supreme Court," said Decourcey.