Subj : Re: I watched the 'talk'
To   : AARON THOMAS
From : Rob Mccart
Date : Thu Mar 20 2025 02:00:00

RM> It is actually a line right on the electricity bill. There are also
RM> Provincial plans that do the same thing.
RM> I save about $1000 a year on those grants

AT>There's a grant for low income people here (like me) but in the past few year
  >t seems like the electric bills went up more than the grant compensated for.
  > the grant was great before this started happening.

Yes, it's still going to get worse every year. You mostly notice the
grants when they are first introduced but they lose a little every
year after that.

AT>I wish I had a single story house, then I'd heat it with a pellet stove.

My place here is small and up on concrete block posts. I used a wood
stove for a big part of my heating in the past when I wintered here
but the insurnce company put a stop to that unless I spend about
$4000 on a new certified stove, and then the rates will still go up
quite a bit.. Plus, I have some trees here but it's not a wood lot
so I'd have to buy wood and what I used to pay $30 for now costs
closer to $200 so it ends up cheaper to heat even with electricity.

RM> If you really want to get mad.. Ford put that 25% on only for a couple
RM> of days and then your gov't had a meltdown and insisted on a meeting
RM> to disuss things last week, so it was taken off again for now.

AT>The media keeps things like this quiet. I would have never known about it if
  >idn't discuss it with you.

I think there's a lot of that going on down there. I think people would
be much more against what is going on if they know how much their bills
will go up and how many will lose their jobs if Trump does half of what
he wants to do.  He has stopped saying he will put tariffs on Canada
and Mexico and is now saying he will put it on everything that enters
the USA from any other country in the world. So everything you buy not
made in the USA will go up 25% or so, and all that tariff money will
just go into the gov't coffers. It's like a huge tax on all consumers
in your country and he's trying to convince you it is a good thing.

It is already costing your small businesses Billions of dollars.
Canadians have already cut vacations and shopping trips down there
by 500,000 fewer than normal for this time of year. How much money
would half a million tourists spend there in a month and what is
that doing to hotels and restaurants and retailers?

I feel bad when I see American tourists up here who, almost the
first thing they say is they are sorry for what Trump is doing
to us. It's not the American people's fault and we know that but
to fight back we can really only do the small stuff that hurts
the ordinary people down there. Thousands of American products
have been removed from the store shelves here and a lot of people
refuse to buy the ones that are still left.

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