"A Green Anti-Poverty Plan"

"The Liberal Party’s Green Shift announced on June 19th marked the most aggressive anti-poverty program in 40 years. The ‘shift’ will transfer wealth from rich to poor, from the oil patch to the rest of the country, and from the coffers of big business to the pockets of low-income Canadians." - Kenneth Boshcoff, Lib. Rainy River

So, finally, a frank admission by a Liberal Party member as to what the "Green Shift" is really all about. Silly us, we thought we heard them say "save the environment", and "protect the future for our kids".

Silly us, we assumed, in the age of anthropogenic global warming, Al Gore, and dying polar bears, that the "green" in the "the Green Shift plan" was about greening the earth, not about greening the Liberal money machine.

No, the Green Shift plan is quite simply about stealing the earnings of those who have toiled to make significant amounts in order to give to those who didn't. Maybe. The Liberal Party does not have a strong history in this regard. Strong on promises, not strong on doing. A strategy that is pure Marxism. The Liberal party has spun so far to the left that even the term "socialist" fails to describe their current ideology.

Roughly $9 billion of the $15.3 billion expected to be collected annually in carbon tax revenues would be returned to Canadians earning less than $40,000 annually. This would be done through a combination of income tax cuts and benefits targeted at children, low wage earners, rural residents, and individuals with disabilities.

So let's look at this statement. More than half of the money collected through this tax has nothing to do with environmental "green".

Further, its to be paid out in tax cuts and benefits. That means the money collected will flow to the general revenues of a Liberal Government, not to specific programs about being "green". In other words, there will be no accounting for this money beyond the soporific pointing to this benefit, or that tax relief. Simply and purely, this tax is noting more than a justification to increase federal revenues under a Liberal government beyond that which it accrues today. Much of what is proposed could be funded with present revenues with a reallocation of expenditures. The Canadian government is not especially cash poor. The Liberals in their previous dynasties accrued large fiscal surpluses, and retooled the government to make much of it unaccountable and out of reach of Parliament.

And what of the beleagured Jennifer Wright, CEO of Green Shift Inc. A small environmental company, Ms. Wright runs the risk of losing all of her hard work over 10 years because the Liberals won't show her the common decency of not trampling on her company name, a name the Liberals were well aware of before they decided to appropriate it for their personal use. Dion calls her lawsuit "deplorable"; Wright is fighting for her survival. He quite apparently has no respect for her efforts as a Canadian businesswoman. Maybe this too, reinforces his contempt, and by extension, the Liberal Party's contempt, for business in general. Certainly, the Anti-Poverty Plan is fundamentally contemptuous of the efforts of businesspersons to grow and flourish.

This latest revelation about the Liberal plan certainly makes Ms. Wright's identity predicament even more tenuous; The liberals may have effectively just killed her business.

Its no wonder the NDP have been so quiet. With the Dion Liberals running so fast past them to the left, the NDP are scrambling to find policies that doesn't put them closer to the Conservatives than the Liberals.