tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23292180.post7479092813921164961..comments2024-03-28T00:54:34.206-04:00Comments on BigCityLib Strikes Back: See You On The Other Sidebigcitylibhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05081538803991095825noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23292180.post-27297981914378905822008-10-15T02:08:00.000-04:002008-10-15T02:08:00.000-04:00No, Dion's done.No, Dion's done.Andy Lehrerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01785847517280834565noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23292180.post-30536974865918241992008-10-15T00:21:00.000-04:002008-10-15T00:21:00.000-04:00I'll gloat for you, Jermo...Booyah! In your face,...I'll gloat for you, Jermo...<BR/><BR/>Booyah! In your face, Fiberals! Minority Queens rule!<BR/><BR/>MIN-O-RI-TY! MIN-O-RI-TY!<BR/><BR/><I>L'enfer c'est les autres. Et bien, continuons...</I>Ti-Guyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06620550471437012866noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23292180.post-37559630537160678722008-10-14T15:43:00.000-04:002008-10-14T15:43:00.000-04:00Hey there.Im not coming to gloat/annoy (it would b...Hey there.<BR/><BR/>Im not coming to gloat/annoy (it would be a bit early for that anyways).<BR/><BR/>No in fact Im coming to thank Ti-Guy - I had tried, but had been unable, to imitate Duceppe's french accent.<BR/><BR/>And then I went on Andrew Coyne's blog, and found this comment:<BR/><BR/>“SUS-tnible DAV-lopment”<BR/><BR/>from Ti-Guy.<BR/><BR/>That is bang-on. Thank you.Jerome Bastienhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05948692098854718499noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23292180.post-29136477803058793882008-10-14T14:51:00.000-04:002008-10-14T14:51:00.000-04:00Count Iggy returns to his coffin.Let's hope so. I...<I>Count Iggy returns to his coffin.</I><BR/><BR/>Let's hope so. I think this albatross has hung around the Liberals necks for too long.Ti-Guyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06620550471437012866noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23292180.post-15484115600425951672008-10-14T11:54:00.000-04:002008-10-14T11:54:00.000-04:00Well, the Libs have cap and trade in the playbook ...Well, the Libs have cap and trade in the playbook already from March 2007.<BR/><BR/>What a fubar, if true that cap and trade (and the CPC DOA variant) will be he only system pushed by the top three parties. Cap and trade can work, but, boy, it will take effort, and there will be no money to offset higher costs to consumers.<BR/><BR/>I can't believe the NDP have been so partisan as to attack such progressive policy as tax shifting. It's a European social democrat invention, by God! Environmental groups all over are panning the NDP for doing so. Between that and not calling harper for his wanton abusing of confidence motion declarations has me fuming at the NDP.<BR/><BR/>Cap and trade produced carbon pricing up to $100/tonne in Europe, without accomplishing anything in terms of real reductions. <BR/><BR/>A carbon levy of $40/tonne phased in over four years would be looking mighty good in such a scenario.<BR/><BR/>I really think that the Libs tried to sell the Green Shift wrong. They should have pushed it as two separate policies: promised tax cuts and increased tax credits, and called for flat levies on carbon emissions. Accuse your opponents who favour offset purchasing systems (be they cap and traders [NDP] or bogus intensity-based traders [CPC] ) of creating "market uncertainty" by not setting a "clear and fair carbon price", and combine that with a fair accusation that they will raise prices without helping the low and middle income families, and the Liberals could have played that up in context of the economic uncertainty. Even without an economic meltdown in progress, the Liberals would be in the driver seat on the issue.<BR/><BR/>I was very disappointed to see Harper's weak plan not exploited that way. His plan will increase the price of "everything" as well, without providing any relief to us normal folk.<BR/><BR/>Liberal planning fubar, IMHO, may have killed some of the best policy produced by the Libs in a long time.Mark Richard Francishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16331995640397477486noreply@blogger.com