It Worked Well The Last Time
Who could forget the stellar campaign that Stephane Dion ran last election. The Green Shift – No, Not the Green Shift – Yes, Let’s Paint Canada Green!
Unfortunately, Ignatieff may have been in the US, and missed out how warmly it was received. Or, the Liberals are just fresh out of ideas.
Globe and Pail: Undaunted by defeat of Dion and his carbon tax in last election, Ignatieff outlines clean energy as next campaign theme
“At the heart of our next platform will be the most significant national investment in clean-energy jobs this country has ever seen,” leader Michael Ignatieff declared yesterday, a year less a day after his predecessor, Stéphane Dion, was whupped in a federal election, in part because of his proposed “green shift” carbon tax.
Undaunted, Mr. Ignatieff, in a speech to the Vancouver Board of Trade, laid out a three-pronged approach to making Canada a global leader in clean energy by investing in new technologies and new industries; by upgrading the energy infrastructure through a so-called “smart” energy grid, and by making the federal government – the nation’s largest employer and customer – a model of environmentally responsible behaviour.
“The jobs of tomorrow are being created elsewhere as we speak,” Mr. Ignatieff warned. “Either we act now, or we spend the next decade wishing we had.”
Actually he really means that if we don’t create new taxes on working Canadians now, we’ll miss the opportunity. In BC, the introduction of the carbon tax has been forgotten, making us poorer, under the guise of Green.
Now, after a great election deception, they are on to a new form of looting – it’s called the Harmonized Sales Tax. This should eventually do in the Liberals in BC… unfortunately they are banking on people forgetting the devious way they foisted it upon us.
We won’t forget – just as Canadians won’t forget you can’t trust the politicians when it comes to Green.
