Liberal leader Stéphane Dion announced details of the Liberal Party’s Green Shift carbon tax at a party rally in Ottawa.
The plan includes a tax on carbon emissions against big polluters with tax cuts and rebates for individuals intended to offset increased energy prices caused by the tax.
We have been heading into a period of economic uncertainty and slower growth. Its happened before, and it will happen again.
But the fork in the road is whether, under these circumstances, we will make choices that exacerbate the problem for the sake of the short term or whether we will make choices that allow us to exploit the potential in our future.