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Originally Posted by old-fart
Wrong... it isn't about reducing green house gas emissions at all, it is about raising money for the government.
IF it was about reducing GHG emissions, why are there exactly ZERO targets in the plan to do so?
IF it was about reducing GHG emissions, how do the Liberals plan to handle the reduced revenue they'd receive? Less emissions = less revenue for the government. Will they increase the income taxes, raise the carbon tax, reduce program spending? What?
It is a complete fallacy that this carbon tax is designed to reduce GHGs (which, by the way, Canada contributes what - 2% of the overall GHG emissions world wide - meaning that even if we reduced to 0 total GHG emissions it wouldn't make a tangible dent in the overall GHG of the planet, and any reduction we make will be absorbed by increases from China and India in a matter of months, if not days).
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I know that you and I are basically polar opposites politically, but I just can't help but comment here. The plan is about reducing GHG's. There are no targets because the targets are meaningless and don't work. The Conservative targets equate to something like 2% reductions per decade over the next 40 years....basically they are advocating doing nothing.
The second point that I bolded is the one that drives me crazy though. The attitude of this is essentially a five year old saying "but Johnny gets to stay up until 10pm, so why can't I?" The point here is not whether anyone else does what they should, its about whether we are doing what we ought to in order to leave things better than when we found them.