Gas Pumps & Civil Disobedience?

The Ford government will require all gas pumps in the province to display the sticker on the left. The Green Party of Ontario produced the sticker on the right, and is inviting gas stations to post it.

Today gas stations across the province are required to have misleading government propaganda on their private property. The Regressive Conservatives are forcing owners to place stickers on gas pumps which are essentially lying about the federal carbon tax and saying nothing about the rebates which come with it. Needless to say, these stickers offer nothing about the net benefit of the cap and trade program which the Conservatives scrapped, nor the cost to taxpayers of their silly court challenge to the carbon tax. 

There is another legal challenge underway because these stickers violate the civil liberties of private citizens for a political purpose. To make things worse the Ford thugs and threatening owners who don't post the stickers with ridiculous fines. 

At the heart of this is the reality of a climate emergency which the government is not only ignoring, it's exacerbating it with these tactics. 



I like that the Green Party of Ontario has created alternative stickers which are a corrective to the misinformation. I'm also wondering about the longstanding Christian tradition of civil disobedience, where the unjust policies and practices of governments are resisted in unconventional ways, including sit-ins and marches.

I would suggest that some will resort to a "the Sharpie is mightier that the sticker" approach, say marking "bogus!' across the propaganda. I'm not recommending this, but we can all find ways to register displeasure about the violation of God's good Earth.