[jolinar of malkshor]

Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch

I totally agree with this. I also think that when the economy starts sliding on an international scale you have to protect your own economy. Now is not the time to make things more business unfriendly, or implementint a tax that could potentially increase the price of consumer goods, or shift revenues from the only provinces that are in have states at an accelerated rate.

Its admirable to want to fix the environment, but like Kyoto, the optics of the green shift are less about the environment and more about funding social programs and securing votes in Liberal areas of the country.

With the Chinese building up their infrastructure and using cheap labor to lure even more business to themselves, why should we be chasing out jobs over seas. China doesn't seem to want to change, and I'm sure that Canada standing up and saying look at us, we're green is not going to make these heavy polluting nations stop what they're doing.

Education, cultural shifts, and tax incentives to corporations to change their methods is the way to go, not arbitrarily slapping a tax on emmissions and then hoping that the organizations that you tap won't just pass that tax onto the consumers, or even worse move their manufacturing to a country with cheap labor and no emmission standards.

Good post Cap.