First, I am a liberal and from my view, I don't think that this idea goes quite far enough.
What Dion should do on top of this shift, is make it easier for business to convert to more green alternatives by giving them tax breaks on the alternatives. This would fuel more development of energy efficient and green technologies instead of the ones we have in place already in our industry. This would help to penalize the "bad" non green behaviour, while rewarding the "good" green behaviour.
This would help to lower the financial impact of the hit to consumers, and would benefit the industry as well (If I'm an industry who is out doing all the competition in regards to green, I could advertise that and get a lot of people to purchase my products instead of the competition)
As I see it, this is an incomplete idea and will probably not be made into law.
That said, with all the uproar that the conservatives are doing, What is their plan. Oh, that's right, do nothing. I forgot....
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