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Yeah, the fact is that the carbon tax as it stands now is pretty much universally acknowledged as the best way to achieve these goals when balancing all the important factors, but it’s political poison, so is this better? No. But it’s something that makes sense at least.
I also don’t love the buying credits idea, but if those credits are going to directly fund consumer rebates I can at least see the logic (they emit a bit more if pay others to emit a bit less, probably doesn’t balance out but as you said, perfect vs good and all that).
I also like the tariff angle. But I would also like them to expand that idea entirely and open things up between Canada and other like-minded countries. Remove duties for goods purchased from countries in good standing (based on criteria like environmentalism, human rights, etc), and add heavily ones for those that aren’t. Right down to outsourcing work. If you want to outsource a job, great, but create a system where that outsourcing is going to cost you the equivalent or more of what it would cost to have it done locally.
But that’s totally off topic.
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You are 100% to a tee describing economic ,Social, Governance. Now go one step further and you have the Communist party of China.