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416.789.1555 jim@axethecarbontax.ca
AxeTheCarbonTax.ca

Re: Patrick Browns Carbon Tax War on the Grassroots!

AxeTheCarbonTax.ca launched early in 2017 with a commitment to fight all forms of a Justin Trudeau
style carbon tax including the Kathleen Wynne cap-and-trade scheme and the even more expensive
Patrick Brown direct carbon tax plan.

Many people are surprised to hear that Patrick Brown is advocating for a carbon tax, but he has indeed
been pushing this mad scheme since the March 4-5, 2016, PC Party Convention. Brown announced his
carbon tax plan by decree and is tolerating ZERO opposition. (Sound familiar?)

Brown now is deceiving his own PC Party members and violating the PC Party constitution to protect
his carbon tax plan. He has shut down all debate on his plan within the PC Party and is playing PC Party
members for fools by charging them $199 to attend a rally in November that he is calling a policy
convention. Even though the PC constitution requires an annual Policy Conference, the upcoming
November rally will not involve any debate, or voting, on policy, at all!

Last month, I called for an end to this deception of PC Party members and related violations of the PC
constitution in a letter I co-authored with fellow PC Party member, Kara Johnson, that we sent to the PC
Party executive. You can read it online at: www.axethecarbontax.ca/suspension_constitution.

The PC Party executive didnt even bother to write back!

Enclosed are two important documents:

1. A letter to Justin Trudeau, written last year by Patrick Brown, praising Trudeau on his carbon tax plan.
This is a smoking gun if there ever was one!

2. An article I recently wrote entitled, The Lies Behind Patrick Browns Carbon Tax.

I urge you to review this information and consider helping us to fight the carbon tax in Ontario.

The Ontario PC Party constitution has a mechanism that allows for an EMERGENCY Special General
Meeting to be called if 1/3 of riding associations petition for one. At a Special General Meeting, we can
fight back and stop Patrick Browns Carbon Tax and much more!

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Thousands of people have already signed up in support - we just need more petitions to reach our goal.

I enclose the Take Back Our PC Party petition. Once you complete it, I need you to email a scan to
join@takebackourpcparty.com or mail it back to
Axe the Carbon Tax, PO Box 20046, Cambridge Centre - 355 Hespeler Road, Cambridge, Ontario, N1R 6B0.

Remember, you must be a registered Ontario PC Party member to sign the petition.
You can renew your membership at https://secure.ontariopc.com/Partyjoin

This might be our last chance to fight the carbon tax in Ontario. It is worth the effort!

Sincerely,

Jim Karahalios
Jim Karahalios
AxeTheCarbonTax.ca

P.S. We are a grassroots campaign that relies on contributions from supporters to engage more people across
Ontario. You can chip in by mailing a cheque payable to Axe the Carbon Tax Association at
PO Box 20046, Cambridge Centre - 355 Hespeler Road, Cambridge, Ontario, N1R 6B0
or online at
www.axethecarbontax.ca/donate.

P.P.S Consider signing up to our email list by visiting www.axethecarbontax.ca/join and like our Facebook page at
www.facebook.com/axethecarbontax.

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 Note the date - October 13, 2016 - just 10 days after
Justin Trudeau told the premiers hes going to try and
force a carbon tax on the provinces.

We know we are off to a bad start

when a conservative leader opens
his letter to Justin Trudeau with the
words We both agree... Brown
volunteered to bring in a carbon
tax 6 months before Trudeau
suggested hed try to force it on the
provinces. And when exactly did
the Ontario PC Caucus decide to
support a carbon tax?

Revenue neutral for a level of

government is NOT the same thing
as revenue neutral for individual
taxpayers.
The evidence is clear - a direct
carbon tax does NOT reduce
emissions. Give money back to
taxpayers is code for wealth
redistribution - Brown plans to
The Globe and Mail reported that steal from the poor and middle class
a straight carbon tax of the kind who will pay for his direct carbon
advocated by provincial Opposition tax and give the money back in the
Leader Patrick Brown would form of corporate welfare.
have to be roughly 4 times more
expensive than Kathleen Wynnes
cap and trade carbon tax. Note
the reference to money that
should be re-invested in Ontario by
businesses to ... create jobs - code
for corporate welfare.

Brown calls all Ontario taxpayers

to work or heat their
who drive
Brown ends his letter with the same homes polluters.
deceitful justication he started
it on - first, that the Patrick Brown
carbon tax can be implemented
without hurting our economy and
then, that his carbon tax can keep
our economy competitive. Brown
also says that Trudeaus trampling
on provincial jurisdiction doesnt
go far enough! He pleads with
Trudeau to force on the provinces
the more expensive direct carbon
tax over the cap-and-trade
carbon tax. Unlike Saskatchewan
Premier Brad Wall, Patrick Brown
is happy to concede all provincial
jurisdiction to Justin Trudeau on
the matter.
 The Lies Behind
Patrick Browns Carbon Tax
Patrick Brown will say and do anything to protect his carbon tax plan - even deceive his own party
members and violate his partys constitution.

Brown has decided that PC Party members can only consider one carbon tax policy under his corrupted
policy process - through an illegitimate online vote. And the policy conceals Browns intentions. I provide
it below.

PC Party policy is to cancel the Liberal slush fund known as the Climate Change Action Plan,
dismantle cap-and-trade, and withdraw from the Western Climate Initiative (WCI), and to return 100% of
revenues from Trudeaus Federal carbon pricing benchmark to taxpayers as verified by the Auditor General.

We all know that Trudeaus Federal carbon pricing benchmark is code for the same Justin Trudeau style
carbon tax that Patrick Brown has already promised to implement.

But the policy only talks about spending the money generated from that carbon tax. For Brown to return
100% of revenues from ... carbon pricing he must first COLLECT the revenues from carbon pricing. And to
COLLECT the revenues, he must first implement a Justin Trudeau style direct carbon tax.

Furthermore, a promise to return 100% of revenues is just another way of saying Brown will spend
taxpayer money - aka corporate welfare. A direct carbon tax is paid for by individual taxpayers and under
a so-called revenue neutral plan - like the one Brown is promising and that they pretended to have in BC -
the taxpayer money generated is then spent on select corporations.

And this is where the deception lies. By omitting the language that explains that Brown plans to implement
a direct carbon tax, Brown is playing his own PC Party members for fools.

The policy doesnt cancel, dismantle or withdraw Ontario from any carbon pricing scheme. Instead,
the policy calls for replacing the Liberal slush fund with a much larger Patrick Brown Carbon Tax slush
fund generated from Browns very own direct carbon tax.

As for mentioning the Auditor General, Ontario taxpayers wont need the Auditor General to tell them
they are being taxed more under Patrick Browns Carbon Tax. And it wont console any taxpayer to have
the Auditor General report that Brown has spent all the money he generated from individual taxpayers on
corporate welfare to his friends. Just google the endorsements Brown received during his campaign for PC
Party leader to see who might be looking forward to receiving some of that corporate welfare that will be
funded by Patrick Browns Carbon Tax.

A clear policy in opposing a cap-and-trade carbon tax would have read:

PC Party policy is to cancel the Liberal slush fund known as the Climate Change Action Plan,
dismantle cap-and-trade, and withdraw from the Western Climate Initiative (WCI)!

Now thats a good policy to support!

PC party members could have also had a chance to vote on a policy that read:

PC Party policy is to stop Patrick Brown from implementing a Justin Trudeau style Carbon Tax!

Another great policy!

Not only is Brown deceiving PC party members with his carbon tax policy, it turns out the entire policy
process is a sham too!

The event in November is being called a policy convention to give the impression to PC party members
that Brown and the PC party Executive are abiding by the partys constitution that mandates an annual
Policy Conference. Instead, they are charging party members $199 to attend a pep rally where there
will be no debating or voting on policy as required under the partys constitution. There will be no policy
conference and it is a lie to say otherwise.

Earlier this week, I co-authored a letter with fellow PC Party member, Kara Johnson, that we sent to the
Executive. In the letter, we called for an end to egregious violations and the suspension of the Partys
constitution by Brown and the Executive. You can read it online at www.axethecarbontax.ca/suspension_
constitution.

Under the partys constitution, party members are supposed to be able to put forward policies for debate
and a vote at a Policy Conference. Local and regional policy meetings across Ontario resulted in several
policies that provided party members with clear questions on carbon taxes.

But in a report to the party membership by the Executive that is buried deep on the partys website, Brown
and the Executive admit they arent following the partys constitution by stating their policy process
is merely reflecting the process articulated in the partys constitution and not actually executing the
process as articulated in the partys constitution.

So, before the November pep rally, party members are being allowed to vote on a carefully vetted list of
policies. Nothing will happen at the pep rally itself.

Last week, Brown and the Executive added another layer of deception by claiming that Brown now has the
power to veto any policy - even though under the constitution, Brown has no such power.

As a member of the PC party, Brown and each member of the Executive have one constitutional obligation
- to uphold the constitution. But instead of being loyal to the party and its constitution, they have decided
their loyalty lies with Patrick Browns Carbon Tax plan.

In the 2015 during the PC Partys leadership campaign, then-candidate Patrick Brown said:

never again are we going to see a policy platform, out of left field, by a small group at Queens Park of 32 on a
policy platform committee, that did not listen to the candidates, that did not listen to the grassroots.

Little did we know, in 2015, that, in 2017, the imposition of policy will be done not by 32 people, but by a
committee of one: the Leader, Patrick Brown with his carbon tax!

Jim Karahalios
AxeTheCarbonTax.ca
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PATRICK BROWNS
CARBON TAX PLAN
1: CLIMATE CHANGE IS A FACT...
2. ...IT IS A THREAT...

3. ...IT IS MAN-MADE
4. ...WE HAVE TO DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT
5. ...AND THAT SOMETHING INCLUDES...

...PUTTING A PRICE ON CARBON!

Patrick Brown, Saturday March 5, 2016