🇨🇦 Carney caves to climate cult, strong-arms Alberta on carbon tax hike while oil sector bleeds

Premier Danielle Smith is negotiating how fast Alberta industrial emitters get hammered from $95 to $130 per tonne under Carney's deal, while the feds originally demanded $170 by 2030. Steven Guilbeault — Trudeau's eco-commissar who quit cabinet over this compromise — is now warning Carney not to weaken the sacred carbon pricing pillar. Translation: even a modest retreat from climate dogma triggers internal Liberal revolt. Meanwhile, oil and gas producers watch their competitiveness torched in real time.

Carney brags about record oil production like it vindicates punitive taxation. It doesn't. Production rises despite Ottawa, not because of it. Every dollar extracted for carbon virtue-signaling is a dollar not reinvested, not hiring, not competing with Texas or North Dakota. Smith is buying time, but the framework still accepts federal control over provincial resources. That's the real surrender.

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