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However, this does bring me to a question. Given the Liberals currently are not in government, and therefore cannot possibly understand Canadian finances under your arguments, how can Dion's numbers for his Carbon scam possibly be considered realistic or viable? Your own argument renders all Liberal projectsions worthless.
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My argument is that no political party including the Conservatives had any idea over the scale of austerity measures that were required in the years after the 1993 election.
You say that the Liberals projections are worthless. Ok maybe, but I would say that that's a pithy argument because the Liberals projections are inconsequential. Why? Well the only 'projections' that the Liberals conduct are future demand for fossil fuels. Dion provides no numbers on the carbon taxes economic effects writ-large. Maybe he should have but he doesn't. The only projections he makes is revenue projections from the tax based on projected demand for fossil fuels. So yes, his projections on fossil fuel consumption may be off by a bit but consumption has followed a fairly predictable historical trend.
The people saying that there will be small effects on GDP are independent modellers and researchers.