Tories use bad math to fight carbon tax

At $50 per tonne of carbon emissions after five years, the Liberal tax isn’t designed to wipe out human life on Earth. It’s designed to be trivial in most daily activity.
Lisa Raitt, pictured earlier this year, in Question Period last week spoke of Marie, whom she said was a friend of hers worried she would have to pull one of her kids out of hockey next year because of the Trudeau government's carbon tax that would kick in a year later.
OTTAWA—Thanks to everyone for all the kind notes after a column I wrote last week about Conservative MP Lisa Raitt’s friend, Marie, who is worried she will have to pull one of her kids out of hockey next year because Justin Trudeau wants to start imposing a carbon tax a year later. Perhaps Marie...

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