Canadian Carbon Tax Follies

Don Surber shows what happens when carbon taxes and nationalized health care collide:

Canadian hospitals are cutting back to pay their carbon taxes next year. This means less health care. But that is not the worst unintended consequence.

No, no, no.

The worst unintended consequence is that Canadians will have to drive further to get their medical treatments.

Increasing their carbon footprint.

And decreasing their chances for success in their medical treatment.

It is a lose, lose, lose situation.

The Surrey Leader newspaper in British Columbia reported: “The Lower Mainland’s health authorities will have to dig more than $4 million a year out of their already stretched budgets to pay B.C.’s carbon tax and offset their carbon footprints.”

New Democratic Party health critic Adrian Dix told the newspaper that ERs could shut down, which would force longer drives for services.

“You have public hospitals cutting services to pay a tax that goes to another 100 per cent government-owned agency. That just doesn’t make sense,” Dix said.

I no longer just question having government-run health care; I am wondering why we have government-run government.

The story is here.

Coming to a country near you.