It’s always good for Americans to look north, and see what the secular left is doing in a country where they are the majority. Previously, I blogged about how Canada is expanding their program to kill poor people, people who disagree with the government, people with disabilities, etc. Today I wanted to look at carbon taxes and drug legalization. Let’s start with drug legalization.

Here’s an article from Daily Wire about Canada:

Drug overdoses are now the leading cause of death for people ages 10 to 59 in British Columbia after the Canadian province decriminalized several hard drugs.

Deaths from illegal drugs are now higher than homicides, suicides, accidents, and natural disease combined, British Columbia’s Public Safety and Solicitor General Ministry said Monday in a press release.

From January to May this year, 1,018 British Columbians died from drug overdoses, a 2.9% increase over that period last year. At least 12,264 British Columbians have died from illegal drugs since April, 2016, according to the ministry.

In January, British Columbia became the first Canadian province to decriminalize fentanyl, heroin, cocaine, methamphetamine, and morphine.

The British Columbia government promised at the time to “treat addiction as a health issue, not a criminal justice one.”

What is very interesting is that this lady said that the reason why they did this is because they want to help the people who take drugs to not be afraid or ashamed:

“Decriminalizing people who use drugs breaks down the fear and shame associated with substance use and ensures they feel safer reaching out for life-saving supports,” Jennifer Whiteside, the British Columbia minister for mental health and addictions, said of the plan at the time.

The root cause of the policy is the desire to “don’t judge”, so that the evil people can feel as good the good people. The important thing being to help people feel good regardless of what they choose to do. Unfortunately, the no-drugs people have to do all the work to give the yes-drugs people free drugs. And they have to pay for their health care, because Canada has single payer health care.

I had a quick look at the biography of the “minister for mental health and addictions”, to see if she had any credentials in law, law enforcement, mental health, or addiction.

Nope:

Jennifer holds a degree in history from Simon Fraser University.

This is a common problem in Canada, where the Liberal Party of Canada frequently appoints “diversity” candidates to important positions, even though those candidates have no earned degrees or private sector experience related to those positions. So, take the finance minister: she has no degrees or achievements in finance. Take the climate change minister: she has no degrees or achievements in climate science – or any scientific field. It doesn’t matter if the person doesn’t know how to achieve results in the real world. It matters if they are a “good” person (a secular leftist) and if they say “good things” (secular leftist talking points).

Well, speaking of Climate Barbie, their climate change minister, what about the carbon taxes?

Even with a small drop in wholesale prices for gasoline on the markets today, he says to look for pump prices to jump to $1.49 on average in most places.

The federal carbon tax is to increase to 14 cents per litre of gasoline from its current level of 11 cents per litre. According to the Parliamentary Budget Officer, it will cost the average household between $402 and $847 in 2023, even after the rebates.

Keep in mind that these are not “per gallon” prices. Canadians are going to pay $1.49 per litre. There are 3.79 litres in a gallon. So their price per gallon of gas is actually 3.79 x $1.49 = $5.65 a gallon. That’s nearly twice what I’m paying for gas.

And it gets worse.

The Toronto Sun notes:

According to the PBO, by 2030 when the carbon tax is fully implemented, the total cost to households after rebates will be significant. In Newfoundland and Labrador middle income households will pay $680 more annually after rebates, $929 in Saskatchewan, $1,028 in Manitoba, $1,118 in PEI, $1,127 in Nova Scotia, $1,269 in Ontario and $1,460 in Alberta.

Households with higher incomes will pay as much as $9,000 a year in carbon tax outcomes.

Is anyone surprised that Canada is going downhill at this precipitous pace? The prime minister is just a part-time drama teacher and ski instructor, who has nice hair and a famous last name. He doesn’t know  how anything in the real world works. And Canadians pay for his stupidity, because they elected an imbecile.