Stéphane Dion has a serious spending problem. He has made tens of billions of dollars in non-budgeted spending promises to various special interest groups.
He has never provided Canadians with the faintest idea as to how he would pay for all of this irresponsible spending.
Until now.
As more details get leaked out about Stéphane Dion’s proposed new ‘carbon tax’ and the great lengths the Liberals are going to conceal the real nature of this tax from the public, it is clear that Mr. Dion is trying to trick Canadians into paying a permanent new tax in order to raise colossal sums of revenue.
The only question that remains is: will Canadians let themselves be tricked?
That is very doubtful. Canadians have seen this movie before.
They are used to politicians promising taxes that are temporary, dedicated or revenue-neutral only to be slapped with new, higher and permanent taxes that fuel even more out-of-control spending.
When politicians without priorities, like Stéphane Dion, use weasel words like “green shift” to describe their tax plans, Canadians can be certain that their taxes would ‘shift’ in one direction only: up.
Canadians are not naïve. They will not be fooled by Liberal word games and phony green packaging. The public has caught on to Mr. Dion’s real “tax shifting” plans. The Dion Carbon Tax is nothing less than a permanent new tax that will destroy jobs and drive up the cost of gas, electricity and everything else Canadians buy.
Stéphane Dion. Not a leader. Not worth the risk.