I'm still waiting to hear what Harper's plan is re. GG emmissions.
Quote:
Ottawa, January 7, 2008 – Canada can achieve deep greenhouse gas (GHG) emission reductions by 2050, but only by putting a price on carbon emissions throughout the entire Canadian economy beginning as soon as possible, concludes the National Round Table on the Environment and the Economy (NRTEE) in a new climate change report released today entitled Getting to 2050: Canada’s Transition to a Low-emission Future.
At the request of the Minister of the Environment, the NRTEE explored potential scenarios for how Canada could achieve deep, long-term GHG emission reduction targets .....
The central recommendation of the report is to establish an economy-wide price signal for carbon emissions as soon as possible. The NRTEE research shows that the most effective and efficient policy that would result in deep GHG emission reductions is a market-based policy, such as an emissions tax, a cap-and-trade system, or a combination of the two.
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Now why would he attack Dion for acting on the advice of a study that his government recommended?
I'm not arguing against Dion being fuzzy on the subject and suffering from foot in mouth disease but I'd like to hear a bit more from Harper on
his strategy. It's clever politics I admit to concentrate on the negatives of Dion as that's what voters will remember but I'd like to see a bit of substance from him too. So far he's offered up nothing.