EDMONTON, AB: Today the Canadian Taxpayers Federation (CTF) unveiled a billboard in Edmonton, urging the Alberta government to scrap the carbon tax. The billboard is located on Jasper Avenue at 99th Street, directly west of the Shaw Conference Centre.
Since the announcement of the carbon tax in Alberta, the CTF has been flooded with phone calls from Albertans concerned about how the carbon tax will impact their families and businesses.
“The carbon tax is guaranteed to make life harder for Alberta families and businesses, but it won’t make a dent in global climate change,” said CTF Alberta Director Paige MacPherson. “The carbon tax is all pain and no gain.”
The CTF’s Edmonton billboard points out that the Alberta carbon tax will hike home heating bills by at least $200 in 2018 for the average family of four. The billboard urges Albertans to visit www.ScrapTheCarbonTax.ca to sign a petition opposing Alberta’s carbon tax.
“It gets pretty cold here in Edmonton, so for the Alberta government to nonchalantly suggest Edmontonians change their lifestyles to avoid the carbon tax is absurd,” said MacPherson. “Home heating isn’t a luxury, it’s a necessity.”
The $200 per year figure does not account for the additional costs of the carbon tax as a result of increased property taxes, education fees and grocery bills. A federally imposed carbon price of $50/tonne would have an even larger impact, costing the average Canadian household $2,569 annually by 2022.
The CTF unveiled a similar billboard in Calgary earlier this week.
“We’ve heard from hundreds of Albertans who oppose the government’s carbon tax and are genuinely nervous about the harm it will cause,” said MacPherson. “After being walloped by a hurting economy and a laundry list of recent tax hikes, Albertan taxpayers do not have extra money for a needless carbon tax.”
The CTF launched its campaign against the carbon tax in September with the release of Scrap the Carbon Tax bumper stickers, which are available to all Albertans free of charge.
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For more information:
Alberta Director Paige MacPherson
cell: 403-478-7184, email: [email protected]
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