Pierre-Yves McSween should save his words on snowmobiling! Pierre-Yves McSween does not like snowmobiling, in fact he may not like motorized leisure activities. For him, going for a walk in Saint-Sauveur or in Mont Tremblant is the maximum of his outdoor activities.
On January 21 on 98.5 FM, he attacked his column by criticizing possible government aid or subsidies to BRP for the development of electric snowmobiles.
“By helping the Ski-Doo, do we want as a society that a luxury entertainment becomes subsidized in the name of reducing greenhouse gas emissions?” he asked as a question, then he gave his opinion “Me I understand that we subsidize transportation vehicles, goods, people, when we need to move, but not the luxury of recreational vehicles!”
Then, carried away by his own anger against people who are not like him, he changes the subject and castigates combustion engine vehicles: “Snowmobiles pollute, boats too, let’s make them pay, it’s the same for side-by-side, ATVs. So are we going to subsidize them?”
What’s that? Mac Sween is making an amalgam between financing less polluting vehicles (according to the wishes of the government, which is banking on all-electricity) and subsidizing current snowmobiles!
And he continues: “If it pollutes, let’s tax the pollution”. But we pay, my dear Pierre-Yves. There are carbon taxes on the price of gasoline, which is now $1,589. And we have a special contribution of $40 on our license plate that you don’t have on your car, nor on your electricity consumption when you spend your life on your computer and your stock exchange sites.
Because yes, the Internet pollutes and is not taxed.
Good Food he advises, you can eat at home without going out…) gyms (a stationary bike in the basement), tourist trips.
Pierre-Yves doesn’t care. He doesn’t need all that. He just needs his couch where he follows the course of his stocks and talks on the radio. Because he makes money in his sleep. A stock goes up, he sells it to take the profit. He can bet down and still win. Not to mention his rented properties that bring in rent every month-end. And he spends his life explaining how to achieve tax avoidance. How to pay less tax. It’s not subsidy, but it’s still less money for government budgets to pay for school ventilations.
See how easy it is to make people feel guilty and show them the wrong side?
Because in front of the money of speculation, there are people who work, who employ, who create added value, who produce with their hands, with the sweat of their brows.
Snowmobiling in Quebec is an important economic vector that contributes to international tourism, with financial spin-offs of more than two billion dollars each year, with a fleet of 200,000 snowmobiles and 100,000 FCMQ
4,500 people spend nearly 800,000 hours each year maintaining the trail system.
Quebec is not Montreal and its crown. With a surface area of 1,542,056 km2, it is the largest province in Canada and the second most populous. There is room for the snowmobile, and in some places, it is a transportation vehicle, as in the mind of Joseph-Armand Bombardier who developed the Ski-Dog to help save lives.
If the community can find a way to lower greenhouse gas emissions on snowmobiles, while maintaining their economic impact, why be against it?
Traveling by snowmobile, you can meet wolves, real ones, free ones, not the Wall Street wolves whose company you prefer.
One day, you’ll have to explain how to make the economy shrink, which is what you’re talking about, while allowing you to keep your lifestyle and your tax-free RRSPs (for now).
So we’ll leave you to your tax avoidance techniques and we’ll keep the economy going by working to lower greenhouse gas emissions, to fund your health care, real estate and road infrastructure needs.
Here is the link to his speech (in French)
