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[–] John_McMurray@lemmy.ca -2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

You have literally no idea. I hear this all the time, almost like there's been a disinformation campaign of some sort.

[–] joshhsoj1902@lemmy.ca 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

You hear it all the time because it's how the system works.

This page has more details that will be useful for you:

https://www.canada.ca/en/environment-climate-change/services/climate-change/pricing-pollution-how-it-will-work.html

There are also links at the bottom of the page to more details.

If you don't trust it because it's a Canada.ca address, then I think your best bet is to go read the actual bill, I'm not going to find that for you, but you're going to have to but in some effort, you've been mislead (which is fine it happens) but then you've decided to start spreading that same misinformation, that isn't ok. It isn't that hard to be an informed citizen today, but a big part of that is not trusting everything you hear on the news.

[–] John_McMurray@lemmy.ca -4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Yes yes, i've been mislead, surely, it can't be that i actually pay the tax and a bunch of people who rent or whatever keep saying "nuh uh". Entire provinces are pissed for no reason at all.

[–] joshhsoj1902@lemmy.ca 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

... Did you read what I posted?

Yes there is a carbon pricing program, that was never up for debate. I pay it too (and get more back than I pay in).

And yes portions of provinces have been mislead because they seem to have no ability to actually validate what they hear on the news. You're a perfect example of that. You're clearly really angry, but the things you're angry about aren't actually true.

I'm assuming you've heard things said by the media, or conservative polititions and you just accepted it as fact and it made you angry. Which was their plan. The whole conservative strategy these days is to mislead their base, create division and make people angry. They don't have any substantial solutions for anything, but that's also ok because their base have been trained to not question anything they hear.

I highly highly encourage you question everything you hear in the media. Official sources (like canada.ca) are trustworthy, but you can also go even deeper and find actual bills. You can work yourself out of the hole you're in, it'll just take time, and you'll have to put in effort. I the current conservative controlled media landscape it takes constant effort to get real facts about things.