[CaptainCrunch]

I give Notley credit for her work during the Fort McMurray fire, I think she and Brian Jean did a very good job.

But I would bet anything that this carbon tax will become a three way boondoggle from hell.

1) I think they're undershooting their estimate of costs to family to sell this thing, and at the end of the day it will be somewhere between the $400 per year and $1000.00 a year. I just can't see families that are heating their home, driving a car and buying things like groceries etc aren't going to see this huge bump between direct and indirect costs as Alberta companies up their prices to the Consumer. Its more likely that its going to be $400 and $1000.00 a year in direct costs (Heating bills, gas etc) and a big chunk of change out of the pocket due to pricing increases.

2) The fact that these funds are going into general accounting is disturbing, to me that means that it has nothing to do with investing in Green Energy and more likely that the raises to government workers and other stupid stpending will come directly from this. I would get more fully behind this if it was a segregated and audit able program.

3) That this isn't it, though this is a thinly disguised consumer tax, this government will implement a PST on top of that and really put the screws to everyone. So not only will you see increased costs on every one due to the CST, but then you effectively double it or more with a PST.