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Canada should consider adopting carbon tax, says panel

Posted at 12:53 PM on 07 Jan 2008

Canada should strongly consider adopting a carbon tax along with an emissions cap-and-trade system, a panel of experts advised the government today. The panel had been asked for advice on how Canada could meet its goal of reducing emissions by 45 to 65 percent of 2003 levels by 2050. Environment Minister John Baird put the kibosh on a country-wide carbon tax last year, but the province of Quebec has implemented one and appears to be doing très bien, merci.

sources: Canadian Press, The Globe and Mail, CanWest News Service

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Ugg, more "experts" (lawyers), studies, meetings, proposals, reports, et al. For decades we've been trying to define precisely what is going to happen and what we should do about it. We don't know what will happen nor precisely how much we should change to maintain some fuzzy level of nasty. We try to predict how many will die and who's fault it will be. What we're really doing at the high level is to decide who will profit from the inevitable changes we must make. I don't know enough about a so called carbon tax but I don't get a good feeling about it and so far just see it as another form of legal tender that won't solve anything in a real sense but will make a lot of money for those that decided this was a good thing.

For me it is much simpler, pollution (that's what we used to call it) is a bad thing, period. I don't need to see endless reports on how bad it might be or what it will do to us. I know it is bad and for that reason alone we must do everything we can to curb it. I can't wait for the idiots in control to make it right.

In Canada these types of nanny state ideas have been called "sin" taxes. They have never solved anything and I have zero confidence that a carbon tax will lower the pollution levels much less the new speak issues of carbon emissions.

by Vikingsson at 7:41 AM on 08 Jan 2008

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