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ShareCandidates miss the big questions
Published: September 30, 2008 5:00 PMUpdated: September 30, 2008 5:25 PM
Dear editor,
After reading ‘Meet the candidates’ again this week, I am still not impressed. Geoff Fleisher, Liberal Party, is another new guy on the block.
Geoff, you sound like a great guy, I appreciate your passion for the beauty and uniqueness of where we live, but where is the message?
How will you represent our issues in Ottawa?
I want to hear more about your party’s Green Shift plan, but it seems to be off the agenda, I wonder why.
Could it be that Canadians see through it as just another tax that will do nothing except cost us money?
Susanne Shaw, thank you for your opinion, I also believe that any carbon tax “falls most heavily on working stiffs, the elderly and the poor.” You could not be more right.
None of the candidates have given us options, I am still waiting to see solar panels, windmills, solar hot water and electric vehicles for sale in our town.
Where are they? Despite that, you want to tax us on carbon without an alternative, and that is just wrong.
There are alternatives out there that we are not hearing about in this election.
Change starts with an idea, and I am going to share several web sites. Check them out and decide for yourself why we have not heard about this in the Liberal Party’s Green Shift plan.
Maybe these are real alternatives that could work, and maybe they would not work, but we have not been given any choices. The Liberals and Greens want to tax us on carbon, the only choice we have now, and offer nothing concrete as an alternative.
Our carbon tax in B.C. has done nothing except take money from families that are already paying too much for energy.
Wake up Canada, taxes do not work. Ideas and policies with incentives might.
On Monday morning, when I go to work, nothing will have changed.
I will do the same as I have for 10 years, burn fossil fuel, because that’s all that is available.
I have an excavator and a truck, and if I want to stay in business I must burn diesel fuel.
If diesel is taxed, I will have to pass that off to the consumer, like any other business.
Sorry to Gordon Campbell and Stéphane Dion and Geoff Fleisher, but stop the money grab and find real solutions.
I am humbled by how many people have expressed support for my letters.
Thanks, I want to encourage everyone to write letters, express your opinions. If you disagree with me, great, that’s what democracy is all about.
Ken Knopp
Port Hardy
