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Originally Posted by Devils'Advocate
*sigh* I saw nothing in these ads but fear-mongering. The same fear-mongering that supporters of the Harper government complained about prior to the last election. Though I'm not surprised.
I'm a card-holding member of the Green party who also supports a carbon tax. The idea is that you add tax to items that cause global warming. Now I realize that many Albertans don't believe in that crap, but many in Ontario, Quebec and other parts of Canada do so just bear with me. If Canadians are to reduce greenhouse gases, there needs to be a way to use individuals greed to push them to use more environmentally friendly options (ie with a carbon tax, more people would buy hybrids instead of SUVs). The Green party has also stated that any money gathered by such a carbon tax would be returned to the taxpayer in other tax cuts.
Therefore these little sound-bites do nothing but obfuscate a complex issue down a scare tactic. Why don't the Conservatives put up an ad talking about the progress they have made thus far in fighting carbon dioxide output?
We Canadians usually like to hold ourselves ahead of our American brethren when it comes to being taken in by over-simplified government propaganda. As it turns out, we are no different.
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I am against any further taxation of any kind, we're one of the highest taxed countries on the planet. A general carbon tax like Dion is touting is regressive in any sense, and it won't hurt the people with money as much as it will hurt the lower and middle class.
I also don't like the idea of the carbon tax as it basically goes into general accounting, so there's no guarantee that its going to go towards any kind of environmental reform.
Also there's enough tax on every liter of gas that we put into our cars.
Its just another example of the Liberal's creating an easy platform that sounds like they're doing something. If they had actually done something about the environment while they were in power instead of doing absolutely nothing except agreeing to a Kyoto agreement with unrealistic targets and goals while allowing to get other countries that are major contributors to pollution to carry on as business as usual, I would take it more seriously.