Murray Lozon 🇨🇦

Carneys secret club of 200 half-paid corporate staff in the Major Projects Office skips ethics vetting entirely—taxpayer billions funneled into salaries while they serve private masters. This isn’t governance, it’s a laundering scam. Canadians aren’t pawns in your unaccountable power grab.”

CBAM in plain English CBAM stands for Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism. It’s basically a new carbon charge (like a tariff) that the government puts on certain imported goods. What Carney’s version does: Canada already makes big industrial companies pay a carbon price. The CBAM would force imported versions of those same products (mainly steel, aluminum, cement, and similar materials) to pay a similar charge if they come from countries that don’t have their own carbon price. The idea is to stop other countries from undercutting Canadian companies and to push more countries to put a price on carbon. What it means for regular Canadians: • Higher prices on everyday stuff. Steel and aluminum go into cars, appliances, houses, buildings, and infrastructure. When the cost of those materials goes up, manufacturers and builders pass it on. That shows up as higher prices at the store, higher construction costs, and more expensive homes and vehicles. There is no household rebate attached to this one the way the old consumer carbon tax had. • Pressure on Canadian jobs and industry. At the same time, the European Union has its own CBAM. Canadian steel and aluminum companies that sell to Europe are facing extra costs and paperwork because Canada’s carbon system isn’t fully linked with Europe’s. That can hurt competitiveness for producers (especially in places like Quebec and Atlantic Canada) who are already dealing with U.S. tariffs. Lost sales or squeezed margins in those sectors can mean fewer jobs or lower wages. • Government gets some money, but you still pay. The Canadian version was estimated to bring in a few hundred million dollars a year. That’s revenue for Ottawa, but it comes from higher costs on the goods Canadians buy. Any administrative costs, trade fights, or economic drag also get paid by taxpayers and households one way or another. Bottom line for the kitchen table: It’s another cost added onto materials that end up in the things you buy and the buildings you live and work in. It is meant to protect Canadian industry and climate policy, but the practical effect for most people is higher prices on a range of goods, plus extra pressure on the metals sector that many communities rely on. The exact size of the hit depends on the final rules and rates, but the direction is clear: more costs get pushed down to consumers and businesses.