Does David Suzuki advocate exempting industry from the Liberal carbon tax?
David Suzuki is not impressed with the NDP because of their unwillingness to tax Canadians into poverty: Famed environmentalist David Suzuki has strongly backed Liberal leader Stephane Dion’s emerging carbon tax plan and slammed the NDP and Conservatives. After hearing the NDP’s criticism of Dion’s plan, Suzuki said: “I’m really shocked with the NDP with this. I thought that they had a very progressive environmental outlook.” There’s progressive, and then there is being a patsy. The NDP doesn’t want Canadians to be patsies: NDP MP Peggy Nash said the NDP’s environment plan is not revenue neutral. She said her party wants a system where polluters pay and the money is put into “green solutions.” OK, well, that’s not much better, because the cost of the carbon tax charged to industry will just be passed down to the consumer anyway. But David Suzuki is most disappointed with Canadians themselves. Here we are, facing the opportunity to save the planet by paying higher energy bills (yeah, th
