Quote:
Originally Posted by belsarius
Nope she didn't say a carbon tax, she said they would appoint a committee to engage with all Albertans and come up with recommendations for how to proceed with a climate change strategy.
That panel headed by Andrew Leach with co-chairs from Suncor, Enbridge, NGOs and the aboriginal community recommended the best option moving forward for Alberta was a carbon tax and decommissioning of coal power. The NDP have acted upon this strategy as recommended.
So no they didn't implicitly say a carbon tax, but they did follow through with their platform on climate change.
http://www.alberta.ca/documents/clim...ve-summary.pdf |
so lets be honest, do you think that if she had stood up and said, I'm going to increase corporate tax rates and personal tax rates and implement a carbon tax that she would have come anywhere close to winning the election?
Not a chance, and saying I'm going to form a climate change committee is a far cry from I'm going to implement a carbon tax.
It would be similar to telling my kids that I'm going to talk with their mother about the status of their allowance instead of telling them outright that I'm going to cut their allowance.