Carbon tax anyone? It was a bad idea and badly sold
Yet newsroom enthusiasts promoted the carbon tax with platitudes plucked from campaign literature. As backdrop there was global warming and 'catastrophic predictions from a sometimes hysterical mass media,' as The Mennonite Brethren Herald put it.
R.I.P. carbon tax, a bad idea badly sold. It is in the graveyard of doomed political schemes alongside national daycare (died in 2006), Senate reform (1993) and tax-deductible mortgages (1980). With Stéphane Dion as its spokesman it never had a chance. "The man has the charisma of Jell-O,"...
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