Abandoned Stuff by Saskboy

Here’s a bit of news from Cypress-Hills Grasslands riding in south western Saskatchewan. Duane Filson, the Liberal candidate, phoned my dad and told him that the campaign office in Swift Current was broken into last night.

- Stock image of a Liberal campaign sign

The criminals went into a hairdressing place next to the office through the ceiling in the Wheatland Mall. The Liberals’ laptops had been taken home for the night, and the crooks didn’t even take the campaign’s desktop computer, it was too old to worry about (PIII, 17″ CRT, 8GB HD).

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First the Green Party proposed a Carbon Tax with a huge Income Tax Cut. Then the Liberals came around (although not as strong). When will the other parties catch up?

More than a year ago, the Conservatives had a secret internal report wrestled from their grip by the Green Party. Today, the Jaccard Report is an election issue.

The report, from economist Mark Jaccard, analyzes the potential impacts of various climate change measures on Canada’s gross domestic product.
Green Party Leader Elizabeth May released a document Wednesday suggesting a carbon tax as high as $50 per tonne of greenhouse gas emissions would cause little economic damage.

The report was presented to Natural Resources Canada’s Office of Energy Efficiency on Jan. 16, 2007.

The report assesses the impact of carbon taxes ranging from $10 to $250. The Green Party is focusing on the impact of a $50 tax as that is the key part of the party’s platform – which also calls for the tax revenue to fund separate tax cuts.

At $50, a carbon tax would shave about $4.8-billion from Canada’s GDP in 2010, which works out to about 0.09 per cent of GDP. However by 2020, the impact would become slightly positive for the economy, working out to a 0.004 per cent increase to the GDP.

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Initial HT to GAB.