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Libs taking pages out of the Dem playbook:

I may have missed it, but I haven’t seen many of the anti-tax protesters speaking about the rebates.

Alas, many media outlets also avoid the issue, resulting in articles that inaccurately give unwarranted credence to the protesters’ supposed grievance.

For instance, the CBC did not mention the rebates at all in its article on the highway demonstrations yesterday. Nor did CTV mention the rebates.

Global did mention the rebates, but far down the article and without further elaboration.

For whatever reason, facts be damned, the Trudeau government seems to have lost the PR battle on the carbon tax.

I was speaking with a friend who regularly visits someone in a seniors’ residence. According to my friend, all the old folks are complaining about the carbon tax, damning Trudeau and so forth. These are people who don’t drive at all, who don’t pay for their own heat (which is exempted in any event), and who additionally get a quarterly rebate cheque of over 100 bucks. But they consume media (social media mostly) that tells them they are being personally damaged by the carbon tax, and they believe it.

As well, I can’t help but think there is a tribal aspect to the anti-carbon tax protesters. They just know it’s wrong, and it’s become part of their identity.

As I say, I don’t know if the carbon tax is the right approach to climate change or not, but what else do you have?

Just ignore it?
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I wasn't on the highway yesterday but in town I only saw one pickup truck festooned with flags and Fuck Trudeau paraphernalia. And on a popular local Instagram account which showed footage of the protesters on the highway, the vast majority of the comments were unflattering to them. Most wondered what they were complaining about when they had enough cash to buy six-figure pickup trucks and clearly had no jobs to be at in the middle of the day.
 
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