This document provides a summary of a presentation on carbon tax and carbon pricing. It discusses several key points: that carbon taxes do not actually reduce emissions based on evidence from other countries; that carbon taxes are not revenue neutral as promised; and that carbon taxes will reduce GDP according to estimates. It also questions claims that climate change is entirely caused by human activity. Examples from Australia repealing their carbon tax due to negative impacts on costs and jobs are presented. Overall it is skeptical of using carbon taxes and pricing to significantly impact emissions.

1. Taxing the Environment –
Carbon Tax or Carbon Pricing
- Canada – June 2018
Paul Young CPA, CGA
June 15, 2018

2. Paul Young - Bio
• CPA, CGA
• Academia (PF1, FA4 and MS2)
• SME – Risk Management
• SME – Close, Consolidate and
Reporting
• SME – Public Policy
• SME – Financial Solutions
• SME – Supply Chain Management
Contact information:
Paul_Young_CGA@Hotmail.com

3. Overview
• This presentation discusses air quality. Too much doom and gloom is spread about air pollution and not enough is said
on actions done by countries like Canada and USA for the past 25+ years to improve air quality in their various
countries
• Carbon tax/price does not reduce emissions - https://drinkingwateradvisor.com/2018/04/11/a-carbon-tax-has-a-
proven-track-record-it-does-not-achieve-the-promised-results/
• Carbon Tax are not revenue neutral - https://www.taxpayer.com/commentaries/bc-carbon-tax-not-revenue-neutral-
anymore-27652
• Carbon Tax and GDP - https://ipolitics.ca/2018/04/23/pbo-says-carbon-tax-will-knock-10-billion-off-gdp-by-2022/
• Gore, Suzuki as well as others blame climate change on man-made issues as way to push their own agenda. The fact is
climate always changes. If you do not need to take my word, but you should listen to skeptics. These same skeptics are
not funded by government - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T9eQNZu9Sog

4. Agenda
• Air Pollution Photos
• Air Quality – Worst Countries
• Air Quality – Best Countries
• Paris Accord Climate
• Paris Accord Climate – USA withdrawal
• Drinkable Water
• Water Treatment
• Land Management

5. Air pollution cost Canadians $36B in 2015,
causes 7,700 premature deaths a year
• http://www.canadianmanufacturing.com/manufacturing/air-pollution-cost-canadians-36b-2015-causes-7700-premature-deaths-year-194416/
OTTAWA—Air pollution
cost Canadian families
an estimated $36 billion
in 2015 due to
premature death and
illness, a new research
report says.
Canadian Manufacturing – June 1, 2017
• How many of these people
smoke cigarettes?
• Canada has some of the best
air quality in the world
• How did they determine the
cost?

6. Air Pollution Photos
India
China
Los Angeles
Mexico City
Toronto

7. Air Quality Index – Worst Countries
https://www.carbonbrief.org/paris-2015-tracking-country-climate-pledges

8. Air Quality Index – Best Countries
https://www.carbonbrief.org/paris-2015-tracking-
country-climate-pledges
• Both Canada and USA
have some of the best
air quality in the world

9. Paris Climate Accord
• https://www.carbonbrief.org/paris-2015-tracking-country-climate-pledges http://www.nextbigfuture.com/2017/06/what-are-the-actual-promises-and-
commitments-related-to-the-paris-
agreement.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+blogspot%2Fadvancednano+%28nextbigfuture%29

10. USA leaves Paris Climate Accord
• http://www.businessinsider.com/trump-leaves-paris-accord-but-not-just-about-climate-change-2017-6 or https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/01/climate/trump-paris-climate-agreement.html?_r=0
President Trump announced on Thursday that the United States would withdraw
from the Paris climate accord, weakening efforts to combat global warming and
embracing isolationist voices in his White House who argued that the agreement
was a pernicious threat to the economy and American sovereignty.
In a speech from the Rose Garden, Mr. Trump said the landmark 2015 pact
imposed wildly unfair environmental standards on American businesses and
workers. He vowed to stand with the people of the United States against what he
called a “draconian” international deal.

11. Canada / PM Trudeau
Comments:
• Cleantech is $50B business, but losing
money
• Cleantech needs raw materials,
refinement, fabrication, delivery and
installation
• Canada is already carbon neutral
• Trudeau’s key member Gerald Butts was
responsible for the Green Act in Ontario.
Ontario has some highest electrical rates
in North American
• NWO is driving movement to eliminate
CO2 man-made
• CO2 is not a pollutant, but foundation for
life -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Smh
n1gL6Xg&t=713s

12. Air Quality
• Poor air quality countries
• Cheap dirty coal
• De-Forestation
• Carbon based economy (oil)
• Poor environment regulations for air, water and land management
• Many countries have come along way in terms of air quality through
new regulations
• Tougher emissions control systems for cars
• Better scrubbing technology for industry
• Clean Coal
• Better management of forest (Natural Absorption for CO2 – Greenhouse gases

13. India Water Pollution

14. India Air Pollution

16. UN / India and China
• http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/air-pollution-levels-up-by-8-un-
report/article8642415.ece

17. Land/Water Management
Source - https://wle.cgiar.org/thrive/2017/02/21/it%E2%80%99s-hard-manage-
something-you-cannot-see-%E2%80%93-can-we-feed-billions-ground

18. Fresh Water
• https://top5ofanything.com/list/575a978e/Countries-with-the-Most-Fresh-Water

19. China / Water
Source - https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2017/11/china-spending-100-billion-to-start-addressing-severe-water-pollution.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+blogspot%2Fadvancednano+%28nextbigfuture%29
China launched nearly 8,000 water clean-up projects in the first half of 2017 with a projected total
investment of 667.4 billion yuan (US$100.2 billion).
The projects were devised as part of a 2015 action plan to treat and prevent water pollution, and
covered 325 contaminated groundwater sites across the country. A total of 343 contaminated sites
had been identified, meaning that 95 per cent had drawn up plans to bring water quality up to
required standards.
Large amounts of China’s water have been rendered unusable as a result of poorly regulated
industrial expansion, overmining and the uncontrolled use of pesticides and fertilisers.

20. Water Management/Nova Scotia
Source - https://www.canadianmanufacturing.com/environment-and-safety/nova-scotia-risk-becoming-island-action-isnt-taken-municipal-leaders-warn-204477/
Nova Scotia is at risk of becoming an island within decades if action is not taken to fix the
275-year-old dikes that prevent flooding of the isthmus connecting the province to the rest
of Canada, officials warn.
Mayor David Kogon of Amherst, N.S., said sea levels are projected to rise in the Bay of
Fundy over 15 to 20 years to the point where the Isthmus of Chignecto will flood, even
without a storm surge

21. Waste Management / Lebanon
• This used to be the sea,” she said outside her home. “One day we looked out,
we couldn’t see the sea.”
• Trucks and bulldozers have piled waste at a land reclamation site there since
last year. “In the summer, we died from the stench,” she said. “You can’t
control the smell...it seeps in from under the doors.”
• Landfills and dumpsites - many infamously known as “garbage mountains” -
have mushroomed across Lebanon since the 1990s.
Source - https://www.reuters.com/article/us-lebanon-garbage/no-end-to-crisis-
in-sight-as-lebanons-garbage-mountains-grow-idUSKBN1FO0F1
• Yet Minster McKenna thinks Canada should tax pollution, right?
https://www.nationalobserver.com/2017/11/27/news/trudeau-government-
introduce-new-law-2018-make-polluters-pay

22. Water Treatment - Canada
Source - http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/sewage-pollution-wastewater-cities-
1.3889072

23. Houston / Urban Sprawl
Source - https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/aug/31/real-villains-harvey-flood-urban-sprawl
Houston’s catastrophic flood will be framed by leaders in Texas as an unforeseeable act
of God. It isn’t. Houston’s unfettered sprawl into the marshland of southeast Texas was a
conscious choice by policymakers. So was building a global city on a slowly submerging
swamp. Both were decisions that led to disaster.
Houston has quietly become our fourth largest and fastest-growing city, due in large part
to cheap housing. But the latter has come at an exorbitant cost to its safety. The swamps
and wetlands that once characterized Houston’s hinterland have been replaced with strip
malls and suburban tract homes.

24. Arable Land
Source - http://beef2live.com/story-countries-arable-land-world-0-108929

25. Taxing Pollution
• Tax was not revenue neutral
http://business.financialpost.com/opinion/how-b-c-s-
formerly-revenue-neutral-carbon-tax-turned-into-
another-government-cash-grab
• We already have taxes for pollution as part
environmental regulations -
https://www.slideshare.net/paulyoungcga/environmen
tal-issues-it-is-not-about-climate-change-february-2018
• Carbon Tax will cost economy -
https://ipolitics.ca/2018/04/23/pbo-says-carbon-tax-
will-knock-10-billion-off-gdp-by-2022/
• Are you serious @cathmckenna - you now using forest
fires to plug your agenda?
https://www.slideshare.net/paulyoungcga/forestry-
management-practices-around-the-world-february-
2018. You never call out the provinces for gutting of
their forest management budgets
•
• FYI – Climate always changes -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C35pasCr6KI&t=12
4s
•
• Blames Forest Fires on Climate
Change
• Will not provide cost impact to Tax
payers
• Blames CPC for not coming clean
on climate change

26. Best and Worst 25 Environmental Countries in the
world
Source - http://www.ssfindex.com/results/ranking-all-countries/ and Yale University
Best
Worst

27. CPC vs LPC
http://www.ssfindex.com/data-all-countries/ Change Change
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_Performance_I
ndex#2006 CPC CPC LPC
Canada 2006 2014 2016 2006-2014 2006-2014
Natural Resources
Biodiversity 5.3 5.8 5.9 1.0% 0.7%
Renewable Water Resources 9.9 9.9 9.9 0.0% 0.0%
Consumption 1.0 1.0 1.0 0.0% 0.0%
Climate and Energy
Energy Use 1.0 1.0 1.0 0.0% 0.0%
Energy Savings 4.2 6.4 4.7 5.8% -13.3%
Greenhouse Gases 1.0 1.0 1.0 0.0% 0.0%
Renewable Energy 1.6 1.8 1.8 1.0% 0.3%
Ranking 8 24 25 -16 -1
Score 84 73.14 85.16 -12.9% 16.4%

28. Blog – Taxing Pollution
Carbon tax is pure tax grab!
https://www.slideshare.net/paulyoungcga/carbon-tax-
and-emissions-canada-january-2018
People will spin carbon taxes can grow an economy and
that is fallacy. Carbon tax or in fact any tax is theft!
http://business.financialpost.com/commodities/energy/ott
awas-carbon-tax-plan-to-shrink-economy-by-3-billion-hurt-
loonie-in-2018-study
Why did Australia kill it?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sLjV04-V5WQ

29. Climate Change – Al Gore
• Are you serious? Al
Gore has been proven
time and time again
that he is a fraud!
https://www.investor
s.com/politics/editori
als/al-gores-climate-
change-hypocrisy-is-
as-big-as-his-energy-
sucking-mansion/ or
https://www.youtube
.com/watch?v=C35pas
Cr6KI or
https://www.youtube
.com/watch?v=-
Z_IC3xrgJk

30. Patrick Moore / Climate change

31. Carbon Tax Cost / Trudeau

32. Carbon Tax/Pricing
• @AndreaHorwath @OntarioNDP
•
• You supported the carbon tax, right? So, you are ok with people families pay
$160 out of their pockets to drive. Wynne said she needed this money for her
government, right? http://torontosun.com/opinion/columnists/h-wynne-
spills-the-beans-on-carbon-pricing or
https://www.slideshare.net/paulyoungcga/carbon-tax-impact-to-taxpayers-
canada-may-2018

33. Australia / Carbon Tax
Source - https://www.taxpayer.com/news-releases/lessons-from-australia---carbon-tax-failure
Australia’s national carbon tax came into effect July 1, 2012, and was repealed on July 17, 2014.
“Australians tried a carbon tax, it didn’t work, so they repealed it, and Canadians need to take a close
look at that experience,” said CTF Federal Director Aaron Wudrick. “Many Canadians are about to feel the
impact of a national carbon tax and it’s important to find out what to expect and hear it first-hand from a
country that has tried it.”
Australia produces roughly 1.5 per cent of world greenhouse gas emissions. Canada produces 1.65 per
cent.
“Many Australians faced high energy bills and job losses as a result of our carbon tax,” said Chris Berg of
the Institute of Public Affairs.
“The government was forced to create heaps of new bureaucracy, rebates, free carbon credits and red
tape just to deal with the fallout from the tax. And worst of all, it did virtually nothing to impact global
climate change. Canadians should not follow us down this path.”

34. Other issues
• Too many countries are using carbon tax/pricing to cut emission
without any real success
• Government are masking green policies as they are helping the
environment which in fact all they have done is hike taxes as well
as increase the cost of power generation
• Poor land and water management policies
• Too many governments are not taking a balance approach to both
environment and the economy.