A group of prominent Canadians called Canadians for Climate Leadership, including former Progressive Conservative prime ministers is calling for a price on carbon and that revenue from an emissions tax should be redistributed to those hardest hit.
This story just out this morning from the CBC!
The news release is here.
A quote from Joe Clark:
"I am very concerned by the lack of decisive action by Ottawa on climate change," said the Right Honourable Joe Clark. "We are falling further behind other comparable nations, and simply cannot afford another round of posturing and denial in this next election - more than ever, we need a clear and honest commitment by all parties for strong, simple and effective climate laws."
Tuesday, September 9, 2008
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Also from this news release is a quote from Kim Cmapbell.
"When it comes to tackling climate change, there has been a persistent
void at the highest political levels in this country," said the Right Honourable Kim Campbell. "Canadians deserve and want more, which is why we need to work together to make strong laws and policies that will get the job
done."
More details:
Cutting through the partisan debates, the statement signatories agree that unleashing the ingenuity of the market can be done through cap & trade systems or carbon taxes or the two in combination as long as the carbon price is set economy-wide at an initial level not less than $30/tonne.
While it seems pretty big Libs and Cons both eat their old and will ignore them as irrelevant. While I always liked Joe as an honest if naive guy, he and Campbell are political orphans who carry little weight, I'm not even sure Turner and Martin matter to the masses anymore, sigh!
It is good that they are suggesting a higher starting carbon price than Dions $10 which is not high enough to cause any substantive moderating of demand
Your lordship,
I have struggled to figure out what you meant by your first sentence, but I am afraid I am at a loss to understand it.
As for your second paragraph, you conveniently forgot to mention that Dion's Green Shift requires a $40/tonne CO2 price. It's phased in over 4 years to allow people to anticipate and adjust, (especially those who would be most affected by higher fossil fuel prices), which is where you get your $10 figure.
In any case, I'm quite confident that a phase-in period would be quite acceptable to the people behind today's statement. The point is to make people react to a guaranteed higher price on future carbon emissions. They will, as a consequence, start to invest and change their habits today.
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