Dear Editor
To Prime Minister Justin Trudeau
This is not intended to be a political document of any kind. I am simply wanting answers, please.
Your government’s efforts to give us clean air are laudable.
My understanding is that Canada contributes about two per cent of the world’s air pollution, unlike China, India and even the United States, which are all double digit.
I have seen and heard your chief environmental officer, David Phillips, on TV on a number of occasions, saying basically that if we took all the vehicles off the road, all the planes out of the sky and closed all the factories, it would take a hundred years to begin to see a step-down in the world’s air pollution numbers.
I am also given to understand that our huge forest stocks gobble up carbon at a rate that would totally mitigate our relatively small carbon footprint.
I don’t understand, how a gas tax, where 90 per cent is returned to the public, is going to make a bit of difference.
Your reply is invited and anticipated and could be sent to this newspaper, please and thank-you!
Tony Murdoch
Battleford
