Trudeau Liberals paid the WEF to produce a report that called for a carbon tax, then months later, hiked up their pricing scheme.
Documents reveal the Liberals’ Climate Change department paid the World Economic Forum (WEF) to produce a report that made an economic case for their environmental agenda, including the ever-increasing carbon tax.
In August 2019, the Environment and Climate Change (ECCC) department’s then-minister, Catherine McKenna, gave $493,937 of taxpayer dollars to the WEF to produce the report, as revealed in response to an Order Paper Question sent by Conservative MP Leslyn Lewis.
Specifically, the documents reveal the ECCC gave money “to enable [the WEF] to produce and disseminate a report that will establish the business and economic case for safeguarding nature.”
“This report will be directed at senior decision makers in governments and businesses who have the influence and ability to shift business-as-usual approach,” the ECCC stated. [Emphasis added]
Six months later, the WEF provided the Liberals exactly what they asked for.
In their report New Nature Economy Report Series, the WEF sourced papers favouring a carbon tax. Furthermore, the report’s policy recommendation stated “Carbon pricing should also be introduced.”
The report highlighted Colombia’s carbon scheme – where they tax liquid fossil fuels at $5/tonne – and pointed out that the taxes yielded revenues.
“What is required is bold policy ambition and decisive political leadership to signal that business-as-usual is no longer viable,” the report concluded.