As if we needed more proof that all those “preservatives” in food just lead to beaver cancer.

Quebec province slapped the country’s first carbon tax on energy firms on Monday, as Canadian business leaders urged “environmental taxation” to rein in greenhouse-gas emissions.

The tax, proposed more than a year ago, is expected to cost approximately C$200 million (Loonies… not talking about the currency.) a year to fund the province’s plans to reduce emissions.

It includes a per-litre levy of 0.8 Canadian cent for gasoline, 0.9 Canadian cent for diesel fuel, 0.96 Canadian cent for light heating oil, and C$8 a tonne for coal.

Separately, the Canadian Council of Chief Executives said Canada should become “an energy and environmental superpower,” and suggested higher energy prices to help cut emissions, the Globe and Mail newspaper reported on Monday.  That usuallyworks, right?  When we hear about the price of gas going up we all get hyper-excited about the economy getting ready to really go through the roof, right? Right?  Anyone?

Since 1990, greenhouse-gas emissions in Canada, a net exporter of energy, have risen more than in any other leading industrialized country, data submitted by the Group of Eight rich nations to the U.N.’s Climate Change Secretariat shows.  Quebec has pledged to meet its targets under the Kyoto Protocol on climate change.  Canada has signed on to the agreement, which calls for a 6-percent cut in emissions from 1990 levels by 2012, but Prime Minister Stephen Harper has said that target is impossible to achieve.  As if the Moose Farts weren’t enough already…

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Let’s keep it kosher, what it really is to be Canadian (Molson be dammed - beaver “dammed” that is.):

I am not a hacker or terrorist

I do not like Céline Dion or Shania Twain but I am glad they are getting rich.

I do know Richy and Sally from Canada, but they aren’t nice as you think.

I am ruled by a rich white Prime Minister not a rich white President.

I don’t know French but I can converse fluently in American…

…and I pronounce it A BOOT not a big shoe.

I can proudly sow my flag on my backpack, because even though no one realizes that we are just as guilty Everyone else for the fate of the 3rd world every one blames America.

when I am at home I realize I have better not protest deforestation or sexist dictators without risking a face full of pepper spray and a criminal record.

I believe in peacekeeping, even if it means killing some molly teenagers for fun

I believe in turning back boat loads of Chinese immigrants, a failing health care system, and late night cable porn disguised as art, and that the beaver is a truly proud and a beautiful part of the female body.

I believe the French should whine about anything, and the English should apologize.

…And that is pronounced zed not zee: ZED! That is how the queen told us how to pronounce it.

Canada is the second largest land mass in the world,

the second nation in hockey,

and the best part of the northern 3rd of America!

MY NAME IS JOE,

AND UNTIL WE ARE ADDED BY THE STATES,

I AM CANADIAN

Absolutely Priceless.  This might actually give them something else to be proud of.  It’s actually somewhat impressive that she had a bathing suit at all considering the nearest inhabitable beach was down here in the land of the unclean!