Even the government's own stats shows that the carbon tax isn't going to shit for the environment and Campbell is boasting that hsi claimate plan is the most aggressive in the WORLD.
"The $100 "Climate Change Dividend'' is being called political trickery to distract us from the pain we're feeing at the pump. The Canadian Taxpayers Federation is giving a big thumbs down to the new carbon tax and the cheques you're receiving in the mail.
Maureen Bader with CTF says the province took $440 million dollars from the 2007 surplus to fund the dividend cheques, and spent an additional $10 million to to administer and mail the cheques out.
"The government's own poll shows that the carbon tax will do very little to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. What we've seen in Europe as well is these carbon taxes in a variety of greenhouse gas emissions policies have done very little to reduce emissions."
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Bader adds, "$100 will do little to help BC families whose cost of living has already gone up dramatically due to the recent rise in fuel prices."