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Originally Posted by Slava
I have no doubt if the roles were reversed that the Liberals would be roundly chastised for the exact same policies.
In Dion, for all his other faults, you have a candidate who actually talks about the issues. He puts out plans for discussion. Case in point: The Green Shift. Sure not everyone agrees that this policy is the way to go, but what exactly do the conservatives plan to do to reduce our impact on the environment?
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This is my take and it's in no way representing anybody else's views, Conservative, Liberal, or otherwise...
If the Liberals were the ones cutting enough taxes and the Conservatives were pushing this idiot carbon tax I'd be gladly voting Liberal.
The Conservatives' plan is to not do stupid things that would tank the country's economy further than the global crisis did already, ie by implementing something as fundamentally idiotic as the Green Shift. They are encouraging savings and investments for all with the TFSA, they've cut enough taxes with a minority gov't to keep a pulse in this country's economy amidst the shat-show going on around the world today.
Canada as a country has a population density so low that we generate a minuscule amount of any form of pollution in the world, not just GHG. Here is this high & mighty out-of-touch French professor, telling the me I need to be taxed more so he can look good building up the surplus and spend it on his friends' golf courses, while telling everyone he's doing something to improve the environment? How exactly are you going to make an impact, even if you had all the tax dollars in the world, when your carbon footprint is equivalent to a teaspoon of sand in a beach?
I'd sooner vote for Jack Layton before I give Dion my vote. At least Jack is too clueless to sugarcoat his tax-me-to-death agenda with the environment, he just wants me to subsidize his social programs spending.
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Feel free to flame away, I will return to read later tonight.