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Old 11-02-2016, 12:39 PM   #89
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I also notice a lot of people who like to say Canada and Canadians shouldn't care because we aren't a big contributor. Well, you're voting on missing out on one of the greatest economic opportunities ever presented in peacetime in our collective history. We have an unbelievably unique mix of resources, climate, legal stability, education and reputation - things that should be leveraged into solutions for this problem, to enable doing something about it and being rewarded handsomely.

Can you expand on this, I am not seeing how we get rewarded. Other than the feel good moral/global diplomacy benefit of reducing CO2 emissions what is the opportunity? Power prices go up with premature power plant retirements, carbon taxes make everything more expensive. It makes no sense that we shoot ourselves in the feet and go out of our way to make ourselves even less competitive by going out of our way to drive up our economies major input costs.

Air quality is a different topic entirely, we aren't killing millions of our people annually with smog, our air is clean. Darn rights China should be reducing so they quit killing their main resource and source of competitive advantage (their people). You can argue their reductions are purely economic.
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