I want to take a moment to tell you that just now I was thinking to myself, "I really want to watch a video about the carbon tax. But I wish that, at the same time, I could somehow also be watching a video about chickens." WHAT THE ACTUAL CLUCK

Companies won't care about carbon tax. They'll just increase their price and pass it to the consumers. More money to the government while people will just have to pay more for gas, food, electricity, etc. People will not stop driving their cars.

Great explanation. Thanks for breaking it down in plain language.

Great Video!! Gave me a really good basic understanding of carbon pricing and cap and trade! Thank you

The problem is the tax is not revenue neutral. The money should be returned to the people and not kept by government and that can be done by lowering personal taxes. Now we have more disposable income and can purchase food with a lower carbon footprint sooner. And that would put less demands by workers for higher wages. Which would help the company and make the industry more competitive in the world market. The problem isn't the tax. The problem is the government using it as a cash grab. The carbon tax only works when the consumer sees a positive effect on their disposable income. Canada is a rich nation in natural resources with a small population. Why we pay income taxes is mystery to me.

If you can't make solar more cost effective just tax carbon so solar can compete

Great video; simplicity always wins.

so simple..so interesting.. and so nice explanation. ..

great video :)

I am shocked. How many of the people in this comment section are say we need more carbon dioxide in the air since the whole eco system works on it. You are right that the whole ecostysem needs carbon dioxdide. But we don't need more carbon dioxide in the atmoshpere less. You need water to survive. So if you go by the same logic you need more water. And do you what happens when you drink five liters of water less than two hours you die. The same is with the carbon dioxided in the air we are pumping.

Well Done, Thanks for sharing.

Amazing!

Why is it that these schemes always punish the poor and favour the rich ? Carbon tax raises the cost of just about everything. You can raise the price of fuel , for example to $ 10 / gal. So that the average consumer wont be able to afford driving their car but someone in the higher income bracket will still be cruising on his mega yacht which consumes insane amounts of fuel. There are so many things inherently wrong with a Carbon Tax which BTW isn’t even a guaranteed to impact the climate. I’m not convinced by the so called Green New Deal model especially when countries such as China and India are exempt from having to reduce their c02 output. As it stands , it’s simply another tax grab to me.

Awesome video! Cant help but feel though, that unless the money being being spent on the tax is going too positive initiatives were just creating inflation?

Great video!! Explained it really well

Can we put carbon tax on end products only? So industry remains internationally competitive?

Artificial competition between green energy and carbon energy.

I loved it!

The government also has to compensate for lost revenues at the pumps as people transition to electric cards...voila...the Carbon Tax. I'm taxed at over 50% (40% for income and another 13% for sales tax). Now this!!. What gets me most of all is that they address poverty as if its a separate issue when they pay a large factor in creating it!!

so.. you're telling me the conservatives don't give a damn about climate change?

Solar power on bc you need a building permit to just some panels on the roof so you would think the government would make it cheaper for green alternatives but they make it more expensive

2007, Alberta $15/tonne 2008, British Columbia $10/tonne

Sounds good to me. I do like breathing clean air and I like paying for the true cost of things. All these people nay saying CO2 reduction measures probably don't live in areas with poor air quality. Try taking your pro-CO2 heavy ideas to areas where you can't run outside because of bad air or you can see visible smog.

Hmm that's really interesting to see here Bro! Is that a Flat Earth model you are using!??? Wow that is really cool eh! The flat Earth community thanks you for your love and support! Muchos gracias mi amigo Ciao for now Out

Wait so Colin is a Rooster or a Hen? Because you don’t eat roosters

Does that mean everybody will have to pay 10$ for 3 chicken nuggets, $500 monthly electric bill, and $275 to fill up their car to save the world? Great. Sign me up.

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solar is cheap just spent 2000$ never pay hydro again. !!!!!!!😀😁😂

You only compare coal and solar. Nuclear is better than both.

Ok so we promote environmental goals by making "Sally" more expensive not by making "Collin" more affordable? How is the carbon tax calculated btw??

20 countries out of over 300 big deal.If China and US are not on board vorgertit

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look at China i would say.. if both chickens cost $5.00 at a certain time, why not import cheaper nugget's from China, they are there cheaper because the production is cheaper, they don't care about climate, people feeding them are cheaper, almost everything is cheaper there and finally people in china stay poor, and the government is making money also.... problem will stay poor people can't buy carbon credits, only sell those what they have, to pay all CO2 taxes, rich people big companies will by those credits, and wont do anything to make less CO2.. rich people buy more credits and keep heating their houses. they should make a CO2 limit to let it work and not give the possibility to buy more, that's unfair... only those that make real money from it will laugh.. banks and big investors.. but nothing will change.

All people who think this will work....please remember this policy is made by accountants and finance folks. If you really want to change the environment you need tech like carbon capturing and CO2 absorption.....you get real bang for the buck....because the CO2 is actually removed and captured. Carbon taxing is just kicking can down the road for future generations to deal when energy crunch happens....and trust me no one in Europe or canada gives shit how their heating works when thermo hits subzero.....don't believe me look up at Canada and Germany failing with their short sighted policies. A policy that has no room for amendment is 'Gateway to Fascism'.

You can't make solar and wind without oil and coal. Plus what do you do with old windmills and solar panels?

Vegans and vegetarians be infuriated by this vid... That's not the point of this video

Where did the "carbon free" solar equipment originat? Some mythical solar mining, smelting, shipping, fabrication, delivery fantasy world?

Canada has the 3rd largest oil reserve on the planet, and a very large portion of our economy is dependent on it. Even if global warming was a real problem, Canada produces 2% of the worlds emissions and if it were reduced to 0%, global warming would keep on trucking. All that means is, were producing less CO2 for the plants on our green Earth to breath.

As a farmer and then Economist I for years I thought it was strange that industrial food production by Nature is more expensive but yet is sold for a lower price. To put a carbon tax on things would bring balance to the food market, making the price reflects the true cost. Just like credit allows us to pass debt on to our children, stealing prosperity from them to make our lives easier, so does the industrial food system (and consumers) by pouring waste into landfills and the air as a shortcut to producing quality food. On our organic farm if we raised our animals and plants the same way, they would all die and the land would become unfertile. It would no longer be able to produce food. And yet at the same time because we have a system that's based on this if we put in a carbon tax how will that actually affect the everyday person. Will we be taxed into oblivion? Taxed into a new dark age of servitude and poverty? Or will we learn how to have a truly balanced economy,one where the price reflects the actual cost and perhaps end up more prosperous than before?

All very nice, Mr Trudeau but who gets the profit from the taxes and what do they do with it besides high priced Liberal vacations and do you give a shit of all the small and medium company that will close? Ask India and China to join in and give the profits to the UN while your at it.

I'm thinking the carbon tax and your thoughts on this should go to the after life.

Poor air quality has to do because of carbon monoxide and nox

It's unfortunate that people think that factory farming produces more pollution on-the-margin than the "organic, pasture-raised, fed with locally sourced seeds" method does. The only reason we factory farm is because we simply do not have enough resources to meet our demands as consumers for chickens by not raising them in factory farms. If we banned factory farming, resources would be so scarce that the price of chicken products (this applies to other animal products as well) would become so that that it would become a class-biased system and everyone would have to reduce their consumption of chicken products. Just stop contributing to the animal agriculture sector and much less pollution is emitted!!

Ughhh… so many problems with this video. First of all lets just assume that both Sally and Colin are hens and Colin (even though he has a masculine name) is not a rooster. It takes a lot of energy to produce a lot of Sally's and a small amount of energy to produce a few Colin's but everything being equal, it takes less energy to produce one Sally than it takes to produce one Colin due to the concept of mass production. If this was not the case, you could simply make everything that you wanted for cheaper or at least the same price then you could buy it from a factory. For example, if (using arbitrary numbers) it took 100,000 units of energy to produce 100,000 Sally's and 2000 units of energy to produce 1000 Colin's then the producers of Sally's are using a lot more energy then the producers of Colin's. This is true to the amount of consumption of energy but you have to balance that to productivity and in this case the producers of Sally's are only using half of the energy as the producers of Colin's for the same net results. So you might want to argue that this is about saving the planet and not about how efficient it is to produce Sally's and Colin's. Okay, so, by using renewable energy sources you could reduce your carbon footprint by about half using an optimistic number. The net result will be that you produced the same number of Sally's and Colin's with the exact same carbon footprint with the only difference being that the Colin's cost the consumer 3 times the price.

Since when is "Global Warming" bad (if it were true)? I lose crops every year early in September due to frost. Alberta NEEDS "Global Warming".

Carbon is already plenty expensive have you been to the gas station lately? Anyway don't worry about the planet, we'll run out of economical carbon fuels long before we do any serious damage and the government knows this, they have more people studying this than anybody. The purpose of the carbon tax is solely for one reason only, so that as carbon fuels rise in price due to scarcity the government gets the extra money not the producers. The whole climate-gate thing was just to scare the fools into accepting it (remember, half the population is below average IQ, and people with average IQ cannot understand things like climate models and oil reserves). Sure, the climate has probably warmed a bit since the start of the fossil fuel era, and it will probably warm a bit more by the end of it, but no more than a few degrees and then we will be out of oil & natural gas to burn. And the government knows that the earth will be just fine through it all. How can you tell? You can still get a 40 year mortgage on a house in Florida. They know nothing is going to happen. The know the sea level isn't really going to rise 100 feet. If they thought that for real there would be no mortgages in Florida. No building permits either. Same as you can't get flood insurance or a mortgage on a flood plain. Let me belabor the point. In most parts of the developed world you can't build in the 1 in 100 year flood plain unless there is upstream flood control that is mean to control a 100 year event. Sure, 1 in 200 year events can and do occur and cause flooding anyway, but the idea is it should be rare. So if there is a 100% certainty Florida and much of the coastline of the rest of the world is going to be under water in 40 years or less, why are the banks still lending and the governments still giving permits? Because they know it's not going to be under water. If they knew it was going to be under water you'd have to build further uphill. It's just a new tax, that's all it is. As if we didn't have enough taxes already.

Scam! Scam! Scam! Wake up people!

Carbon is not harmful, in fact it is essential to the health of all life on this planet.

delusional

what a scam!!

It's a scam...nothing more

Just another regulation on local business. What about the other countries that don't have this ridiculous tax? Where is KFC getting their chicken right now? China. Does China have carbon tax?