Dear Mr. Layton: Don't wait for the debate over how to implement a carbon tax shift before planning to help the poor with spiking energy prices

Letter to the Editor of the Toronto Star

Re: Carbon Tax Would Hurt Poor, NDP Says May 23, 2008

We need to protect the poor from spikes in energy prices right now. I think that the NDP should concentrate on that issue instead of fear-mongering about the Liberal Party's carbon tax shift. The reason is that when we come up with a good plan to deal with that issue, a plan which does not contain a subsidy for fossil fuel use, we will also have produced a plan to help the poor adjust to the carbon tax. I suspect that the Liberal's carbon tax shift plan will contain just that.