In a rare burst of clarity in a report otherwise loaded with "green" bafflegab, the economic study the David Suzuki Foundation released last week to bolster its case for a $100 per tonne carbon tax accurately explained the motivation behind all these government mandated, central planning programs.Or, as Lorrie Goldstein puts it, when they tell you "polluters will pay" to reduce greenhouse gases, they mean you and me.
To wit, all involve: "(P)assing the cost of carbon on down through the supply chain and on to industry and eventually consumers. This is the raison d'etre of a carbon price ..." Exactly.
"I think our party has got into a mess on the environment. As a practical matter of politics, nobody knows what (Kyoto) is or what it commits us to." Michael Ignatieff
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