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Re: Mary Lou Siemens letter Musk influenced Trump? (Castanet, Feb. 4)
Billionaire Elon Musk’s involvement in the Trump 2.0 regime has led members of the Democratic Party to suggest he is U.S. President Donald Trump’s "shadow president."
I hope Musk continues to praise Conservative Party Leader Pierre Poilievre on social media. Perhaps Musk will attend some—or many—of Poilievre's future meet-and-greets and campaign stops. Anything seems possible these days. (What's next? Trump nominating son-in-law Jared Kusher to be his new Gaza czar in charge of beach resort development?)
The independently owned and operated MeidasTouch Network -- founded by three American brothers in 2020 -- now beats all news networks in YouTube ratings and NDP MP Charlie Angus (Timmins - James Bay) has become a fairly frequent MeidasTouch guest in recent weeks.
In a Jan. 11 interview, Angus referred to Poilievre as "MAGA Maple" and "Donald Jr., Canada's version". He said Poilievre has politicized everything and it's made him look very disreputable.
"We now have Elon Musk saying how much he loves him [Poilievre]. Canadians are paying attention to that, “said Angus.
"Pierre Poilievre's crew is very much out of the “MAGA” playbook... And so they go for disinformation. They go for rage. They go for threats. I mean I don't know how many death threats I've received from people spouting his ideology.... And we will stand together to fight Trump, and I think Mr. Poilievre's gonna have to learn very quickly that his MAGA rage talk is alienating people at a very interesting rate. This is not who we are. This is not who we wanna be, and we're gonna have to stand firm."
Ever since Poilievre became Conservative Party leader, he has repeated ad nauseam that he wants a “carbon tax” election. But there isn't going to be a carbon-tax election, there's going to be a Trump-tariff election.
Two of the candidates running to become the Liberal Party’s leader agree the consumer carbon tax would be scrapped.
Former Bank of Canada and Bank of England governor Mark Carney said he would immediately remove the tax if he becomes prime minister. Instead, he would integrate a new consumer carbon credit market into the industrial pricing system and impose carbon tax tariffs on imports into Canada.
Former finance minister Chrystia Freeland acknowledged Canadians don’t want the consumer carbon tax but still supports industrial carbon pricing—putting a price on emissions from big industry, including oil and gas.
What does Poilievre do now with the boxes of leftover "Axe the Tax" election merchandize?
David Buckna, Kelowna
