Deiwos Deiwos:
Of course Baird is making it sound like it is one or the other. In the absence of a plan they can claim is better than Dion's, all they have is the, "The Liberals are wrong" strategy. I'm a social liberal who actually has some faith in the market. While I agree that a cap and trade system is not enough, that some companies will just pay the price and keep polluting, some will start to find ways that cost less. The answer is not to dive radically into one solution, it is to ease ourselves into as many solutions as possible.
While I agree something should be done re climate change, paying people to offset carbon use is like an alcoholic paying somebody to go to AA meetings while quaffing a 40 oz of vodka.
Totally silly.
Dion's plan is pure tax, no reductions, no anti-pollution measures, just us poor plebs paying out more for the stuff we need.
Baird is right.
But I don't see anything really useful coming from the Tories.
I hope their plan is more than just pointing out how crap Dion's plan is.