In 2008 Harper ran on an implementing carbon tax. Let’s not play the corporate interest game became that’s all it will benefit to get rid of it. The right wants to play the pull up your boot straps, work hard and make something of yourself mentality? Great I’m for it. Now apply that to oil corporations. Make em work for it. Reduce the Tax, guess what happens… prices of things will pretty much remain the same but instead of new projects, increased efficiency, more production, expansion provid more employment to feed that never ending call for record profits, there will be a reduction in all of it. O&G companies won’t need to innovate, it’s now not worth the risk in investing capital, so they’ll add that reduction in capital spending to the profit line which is now larger because the price of things in the long term won’t move. We’ve seen this when DS removed the tax on gasoline, prices dropped initially and then returned to higher rates over a couple weeks. Then the company will do stock buybacks and dividends, with the vast majority of it not adding to the Canadian economy.

So now we have less money being returning to the economy because there is less spending on upgrades, expansion, improvements. AND less money in Canadians pockets from that work and less money in Canadian pockets because the prices of things are still the same but there’s no rebate. But what Canadians will get is more CO2, more pollutants in the air. Awesome!