Off On The Wrong Foot

While the Irises continue to bloom, the world's eyes seem to be on B.C. these days as yet more feet are showing up on the shores of our fair province. Forgetting about the fake foot found in Nanaimo yesterday, there have been five so far. Theories abound, but no answers, yet. Were they hands, the explanation might be too much football. An often used play in that sport is the hand off.

But the real issue for me, what really got me off on the wrong foot today, was the Federal Liberal Party's new Green Plan. They are taking a page right of Green Gordon's playbook and the key phrase here is "revenue neutral". Our heating fuel and our electricity will be taxed to death in exchange for a few percentage points decrease in income taxes. Industries can buy, sell, or trade 'carbon credits' and what is the bottom line of all this insanity? We will prevent global warming! I could blog on the fallacy of this thinking for the next four years, but suffice it to say that this is lunacy in its purest form. These carbon taxes are inflationary and no amount of rebates or tax cuts will make up for the increase in the cost of living for each and every Canadian, let alone change the weather. I thank God that these Liberals are not in power, and the idea is so far, just that, an idea. When our provincial carbon tax hits in a few weeks, and the feds see the backlash, they will re-think this insanity. Already, the polls are showing 60% of British Columbians are opposed to it. Meanwhile, we are still in a record setting cold June.