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Originally Posted by ikaris
I'm not sure if this has been mentioned before but isn't the Liberal "Green shift" plan exactly what the Green party has been proposing for years (albeit with some minor modifications)?
The NDP party website is the least informative of them all...
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As for the "Green Shift" and the Green's "Ecotax", they are similar. However, Dion's "Green Shift" is primarily focused on greenhouse gases. The Greens tax looks at all environmental issues. The theory is that currently industry is being "subsidized" by not including the full cost of production into their product. For example, sulfur emitting plants cause acid rain, which causes health problems and dead lakes that need to be cleaned. It isn't the company that has to pay for the environmental effects of acid rain, but they should. So they would tax the product coming from that factory in such a manner that (a)the government would recoup the money they require to handle the negative impacts and (b) consumers would not want to pay the higher price, so they may choose to go with product B which has less of an environmental impact.
As for the NDP platform, I don't think they were as well prepared as they should have been from an online perspective. Their web site hasn't updated their platform since 2006:
http://www.ndp.ca/platform
And there is no link there from the main page, so it isn't any wonder you couldn't find it.