🎙️Mic check: Pierre Poilievre is wrong yet again. 🎤

A new report by leading economics professors at the University of Calgary confirms that #pollutionPricing is not driving up inflation in the way Mr. Poilievre claims.

1/9 In their study, Winter & Tombe found that #pollutionPricing has contributed to less than 0.5% of the increase in consumer prices since 2019. That’s a small & nearly insignificant fraction of the overall increase in costs Canadians have faced.

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After a summer of the worst wildfires on record, it couldn't be more clear that addressing the climate crisis and building a stronger economy of the future requires an all-hands-on deck effort. But it's clear some would prefer to chart a more reckless course.
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At a time when @ABDanielleSmith‘s government is warning municipalities about water use due to drought, like @PierrePoilievre, they would rather twist the facts instead of working collaboratively on cutting pollution.
cbc.ca/amp/1.7074985

Today, eight out of ten of Canadians across ON, AB, MB, SK, NB, PEI, NS and NFLD will get more back through the pollution pricing rebates, the Climate Action Incentive, than they pay in carbon pollution pricing-- here's what you need to know ⤵️ #cdnpoli 2/ By returning more back through the rebate, we’re lowering the cost of living for the Canadian middle class.

Check out this calculator to see the math: newsinteractives.cbc.ca/embeds/2023/ca…

Premier Smith, like Poilievre, your "Canada is broken” talking points are trying to tear Canada down.

Confident countries invest in their people & future

Your video serves only to spread fear & misinformation, which does no good for anyone

Let's look at the facts.
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Your unilateral moratorium on renewable energy projects shut down $33 billion in investments overnight.

Is that what you call encouraging investment?
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Erin O’Toole has made the Conservative party a home for dinosaurs. These examples are just scratching the surface of the climate change denial rampant in his party.

WARNING : 14 tweets follow, amounting to the same amount of dinosaurs...
#elxn44 #cdnpoli

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In Shefford, O’Toole’s candidate Céline Lalancette denies the very existence of the human causes of climate change, telling media: "humans are not responsible for climate change, it has never been proven" and "the universe will do what it has to do" lesoleil.com/actualite/poli…

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Erin O’Toole continue d’accueillir des dinosaures au sein du Parti conservateur. Ce n’est que la pointe de l’iceberg du déni des changements climatiques omniprésent au sein de son parti.

Avertissement : 14 tweets pour autant de dinosaures... #polcan #Elxn44

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À Shefford, Céline Lalancette, la candidate d’O’Toole, a dit que : « L’humain n’est pas responsable des changements climatiques, et ça n’a jamais été prouvé » et que « l’univers va faire ce qu’il a à faire » lesoleil.com/actualite/poli…