MKJA report also shows GHG reductions

The MKJA report quoted in the Green Party press release yesterday also answers the question (in a political sort of way because the Conservative government was in possession of this 'secret' report) that many critics have posed about how much and when greenhouse gas emissions would be reduced under a Green Shift or Green Tax Shift.

Check out Table 3 of the report, entitled "Emissions Reductions Under GHG charges". The authors of a report have a model with which they can give a rough idea of when and how much emissions will be reduced under a certain level of carbon tax.

Of course all of this is less important than the fact that this report shows that the economic impact of the proposed carbon tax, either by the Liberals or the Greens, would be to reduce GDP by only about one-tenth of one percent in the first five years or so, but then actually increase the GDP 15 years down the road. The Conservatives knew that this information was in the report by MKJA that they did not make public, and yet they persisted in claiming in the first week of the election campaign that the Green Shift would "plunge Canada into a recession" and threaten national unity. If you can't be honest with yourself, how can you be trusted to run somebody else's (the country's) affairs?