[ernie]

It may not be complete economic collapse but it also certainly isn't "only" $100 billion dollars either. It's probably somewhere in the middle:

A significant number of jobs would be lost, the economy would definitely take a signficant substantial hit, and it will cost billions and billions and billions of dollars.

All to implement a plan that really doesn't really guarantee the removal of one iota of pollution from the world.

The conservatives may take a bit of a beating on this short term, but I think an underlying message that a persons job may be in danger from the Kyoto plan counters it quite nicely. Especially if at the same time they do pass environmental measures. People have these views of an ideal world. However, most of those same people still put themselves first over anyone else let alone the environment. And really, any environmental improvement bills the conservatives table should in the end pass because the I can't imagine the Liberals or NDP voting against improvement measuers even if it isn't to the extent they want. I think they'd be foolish to campaign on the environment as in the end no matter what voters say is important to them during the campaign the large majority vote for who they think will leave the most money in their pockets.