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Originally Posted by Resolute 14
Oh, and LOL at Stephane Dion's hypocrisy. His "Green Shift" was designed to placate the east, primarily at the expense of Alberta.
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Actually is was good policy poorly communicated with bad timing. In principle it makes sense to tax things you don't want to encourage (consumption of fossil fuels) and not tax things you do (productivity and income). Since everyone pays income taxes and consumes fossil fuels (the tax would have been at the consumer level, not the producer level) it wouldn't have benefited one region over another. The problem was people didn't believe that income taxes really would go down, therefore it wouldn't be a "shift" but additional taxes.
What Mulcair is saying really is intended to cause a rift between regions. But obviously he knows where his votes are.