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Hey Canadians proud American here. For some reason my guilty pleasure is watching the Canadian PMQ, Pollievre v Trudeau.

Don’t know much about Canada besides what they talk about.

How do you guys feel about the carbon taxes? Causing worthwhile economic damage?

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The carbon taxes have caused no economic damage. I work in an industry that would hypothetically be affected but it’s not. Here in Quebec we’ve had carbon tax for 15y and we are home to massive industry. Meanwhile the US’ warmongering and abdication of post ww2 accords on refugees wreak havoc for us economically.

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My point isn’t it’s not justified, but a carbon tax will make everything down stream more expensive. If you tax diesel for trucks, your food at the grocery store will cost more to accommodate.

Would you say the cost of living has gone up a lot compared to the official inflation numbers?

Lots of evidence that carbon taxes are net positive, haven't seen any thoughtful discourse on why they might be not?

It's a way to account for an externality that is normally unaccounted, which means everyone else is paying for it by default if not accounted.