Letters to the Editor, June 30, 2025

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REGULATE AND TAX

Re “Remember Carney’s new carbon taxes? They’re still coming” (Lorrie Goldstein, June 25): Goldstein’s column implies that carbon taxes or other carbon legislation would be a big cost to Canadians. Unfortunately, he doesn’t understand that doing nothing about climate change is much more expensive than regulating our pollution. Think of all of Canada’s coastal cities, like Victoria, Charlottetown and Halifax that are exposed to sea level rise. Think of the rising cost of rebuilding towns and cities destroyed by wildfires, like Jasper and Fort McMurray. Think of the rising insurance prices driven by an increase in unpredictable floods, fires and extreme storms. And what about the loss of life from chronic wildfire smoke inhalation, or the simple loss of the beauty and memory of a normal summer? Wake up, Goldstein, neither our lives nor our economy is possible in a burning country. Fortunately, there’s a cheaper solution: Regulate our darned pollution, and yes, with taxes.

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Joey Maslen                                                                                                                                                   Calgary

(It’s not an implication — there will remain a massive cost to Canadians. And you can’t honestly believe the billions collected have gone to fight climate change)

CURBING POLLUTION

Re “Remember Carney’s new carbon taxes? They’re still coming” (Lorrie Goldstein, June 25): I’m being smothered by wildfire smoke, not carbon taxes. If opinion columnists spent half the time calculating the cost of climate damages as they did painstakingly following the thin thread of cost from climate legislation to taxpayers, we’d never hear another word against carbon pricing again. Half our best summer days are gone now to smoke or heat or flood. How many more do we need to lose before we realize that doing our part to curb pollution is the bare minimum required to ensure our economies leave a life worth living behind?

Mark Taylor                                                                                                                                                Calgary

(There will be no economy left to speak of if we carry on with these punitive taxes)