This year — 2023 — marks year two of Canada’s net\u002Dzero plan, which will remake virtually every aspect of our economy and society.
We’ve already seen the effect on average Canadians. Under the “waste” component of the 2030 emissions reduction plan, the government mandated single-use plastics out of existence for most people. The actual bans kicked in at the end of 2022, so if you’re still running on hoarded plastic ware, straws and coffee stirrers, you’ll want to make it last. And yet, an analysis of Canada’s net-zero plastics plan proves it’s a net loser.
On the housing front, the government’s 2030 emissions reduction plan calls for emissions from homes and commercial buildings to fall 42% by 2030. This is wildly unrealistic. If you’d like some numbers, C.D. Howe economists estimate “total annual retrofit costs, just to households, would run from $4.5 billion to $6.3 billion.” That’s roughly the cost of building two or three modern hospitals per year.
The Trudeau government has gotten far out over its skies in its frenzied adoption of the net-zero emissions by 2050 framework. If this plan it allowed to continue, it will cause economic and social harms that will take decades to remediate. In 2023, if something has the word “net-zero” attached to it, Canadians should say net-no-thanks.
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