Tell Trudeau and Guilbeault:
While communities across Canada reel from devastating climate disasters and buckle under the increased cost of living, fossil fuel executives are laughing all the way to the bank.
The oil and gas sector will earn a record $4 trillion in 2022. Meanwhile, even as the cost of oil drops, these companies keep gouging consumers with high gas prices. It’s time to make polluters pay their fair share.
We can’t trust these companies to direct their record profits into climate solutions. We need our government to act.
Tell Justin Trudeau and Steven Guilbeault to tax the excess profits of fossil fuel companies to pay for loss and damage, and fund a just transition that puts workers and communities first.
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Dear Prime Minister Trudeau and Environment Minister Guilbeault, we need you to stand up for people and the planet.
Canadians need relief. The fossil fuel industry is raking in record profits while working people across the country struggle with the rising cost of living. Meanwhile, the climate crisis these companies created is devastating whole communities with supercharged storms like Hurricane Fiona
Climate action must be rooted in justice. That means holding those responsible to account and making them pay their fair share to fix the problem they created. It’s time to tax Big Oil’s excess profits to fund real solutions to the climate crisis that protect communities over corporate profit.
It’s clear that these companies won’t invest in real climate solutions on their own. Instead, they’re spending this year’s record profits on share buybacks, dividends and executive bonuses. You need to stand up to them. The UK, Spain, Greece, Italy, Hungary, Romania and Bulgaria all made the wise decision to tax excess oil and gas profits earlier this year. Why has your government refused to do the same?
The only way to get at the roots of the climate emergency and skyrocketing inequality before these crises spiral into catastrophe is with a rapid, economy-wide transformation that gets us off fossil fuels for good. You must make polluters pay their fair share. Otherwise, this unprecedented transition and the escalating climate crisis will continue to crush communities and working people across the country.
I urge you to make the fossil fuel companies that caused the climate crisis pay for the surging costs of climate disasters like Hurricane Fiona. Tax Big Oil’s excess profits to fund a Just Transition to 100% clean energy.