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Originally Posted by Slava
So on the topic of cap and trade, who has the best plan? I'm clearly not in favour of any...but all of the parties are proposing it! It's one of my main arguments regarding the fact that there isn't much difference between the fiscal policy of the Liberals and CPC. The tankers on the coast though, is another issue and to me the Liberals miss the boat there.
The cutting of the subsidies is something common to all three parties as well....might be better marketing from the CPC here, I don't know.
I guess if those are two major reasons why the CPC is going to be better to the oilpatch though then the doomsday clock is closer to midnight then I thought!
In reality the oilpatch can probably make a go of things without a subsidy for the time being? I feel like my paying about $1.20/litre this morning is giving a good, healthy margin and hopefully they can make do. As a fiscal conservative I would just say there are other areas where the government can be effective and subsidizing corporations likely isn't one of them.
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The devil's always in the details of whichever path you propose to implement. The Conservative's platform of regulations is pretty much the worst though from an economic perspective. It fails to harness the equi-marginal principle of cost distribution minimizing total costs.