Tuesday, August 22, 2006
I'm still a Dion man, and I'm still lukewarm on Iggy...
But the Harvard Professor is suddenly looking more progressive on carbon emissions than the former Environment Minister.
The gauntlet's down, Stéphane - don't disappoint.
Update: Chris over at Blue Tory makes a fairly bizarre comparison between the Ignatieff proposal and the NEP. I call the comparison bizarre because the primary aim of the NEP was to keep energy prices low, while the Ignatieff proposal quite specifically aims to hike energy prices (at least insofar as "energy" = "oil").
Chris also suggests that this proposal is bad for western Canada (at least insofar as "Western Canada" = "Alberta and to a much lesser extent Saskatchewan"). To the extent that this proposal would cut consumption of oil, it is indeed bad for Alberta. But I'd be very curious to see a carbon emission-reduction plan that *didn't* cut consumption of oil, and that wasn't, at least by Chris's definition, bad for the west.
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But the Harvard Professor is suddenly looking more progressive on carbon emissions than the former Environment Minister.
The gauntlet's down, Stéphane - don't disappoint.
Update: Chris over at Blue Tory makes a fairly bizarre comparison between the Ignatieff proposal and the NEP. I call the comparison bizarre because the primary aim of the NEP was to keep energy prices low, while the Ignatieff proposal quite specifically aims to hike energy prices (at least insofar as "energy" = "oil").
Chris also suggests that this proposal is bad for western Canada (at least insofar as "Western Canada" = "Alberta and to a much lesser extent Saskatchewan"). To the extent that this proposal would cut consumption of oil, it is indeed bad for Alberta. But I'd be very curious to see a carbon emission-reduction plan that *didn't* cut consumption of oil, and that wasn't, at least by Chris's definition, bad for the west.
