Canada’s capital chooses climate suicide
By Tom Harris, Dr. Jay Lehr |January 24th, 2022|Climate, Energy|9 Comments
Of the thousands of governments across the world to have declared a “climate emergency,” perhaps the most misguided is the City of Ottawa, Canada’s capital city. For not only do the Mayor and city councilors of Ottawa believe that what they do actually has an influence on global climate, they are prepared to bankrupt the city and risk the safety of its most vulnerable citizens to put their plans in place. It doesn’t seem to cross their minds that, as the seventh coldest national capital city in the world, their population might enjoy a couple extra degrees of warming every winter.
According to numerous studies, cold weather kills 10 to 20 times as many people across the world each year as does hot weather . One international study of 74 million deaths at 384 locations in 13 countries found a ratio of 20 to one as to cold related or heat related deaths. It would seem the average citizen of Ottawa would welcome a few degrees of warmth but this is not only ignored by the city government they are apparently intent on bankrupting the city as a result of their belief that Ottawa itself could affect the Earth’s temperature. They plan to spend billions of dollars of their citizens taxes to insure the city remains among the coldest of the world’s capitals.
So, instead of preparing the City for potential cooling predicted by many climatologists, Ottawa is on the verge of a self-induced crisis. They are committed to spend $57.4 billion through 2050 to fight global warming. That’s about $60 thousand for every man, woman and child in this city only million souls. The revenues to finance these expenditures would come largely from additional taxes and fees imposed on Ottawa residents, including road tolls ($1.6 billion), congestion charges ($338 million), road user fees ($188 million) and land transfer tax increases ($130 million), in addition to major increases in electricity, property taxes are expected to rise by almost 40%. Ottawa residents would also pay much higher parking fees for much reduced public parking spaces.
https://www.cfact.org/2022/01/24/canadas-capital-chooses-climate-suicide/
