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Originally Posted by Doctorfever
Funny, this is word for word what is written in the Sun article. Lol. I guess maybe you do agree with the Sun on some things!!  |
Your posts about Carbon Tax should be in the Alberta Politics thread. The Feds have accepted all of the Carbon tax proposals that Alberta has proposed to the government. The current Carbon Tax system is a Smith/Kenny choice.
Also the analysis of the Quebec situation needs more nuance as you need to do a similar lifecycle analysis to compare to the Alberta plus rebates system to the Quebec system where they choose to put all the money into greening the energy supplies.
In a cap and trade market as long as the cap is being reduced sufficiently to meet climate change objectives which Smith does not discuss then the price of carbon is not relevant to whether or not the program is meeting climate goals. It is funny that a conservative would be advocating for cap in trade which places a cap on carbon emissions over the free market carbon tax system which places a price on externalities as the right historically favoured a market driven approach over regulation but the conservatives don’t seem too conservative anymore anyways.
If the Quebec plan is better (and I have no idea if it is) The issue here isn’t one of the sovereignty act it’s a failure of Alberta to bother to negotiate the best deal it could for the province.