Andrew Stephenson

2017-04-29 11:51:49 -0400

“Allan Peterson commented 11 hours ago

Andrew, buying a membership doesn’t make it legitimate. You are an infiltrator and a phony. "



Not according to any membership rules. Nowhere does it say that NDP supporters can’t apply :)



“liza Rosie commented 12 hours ago

No true conservative would vote for Chong. There is nothing conservative about the man. He’ll be crossing the floor with Raitt. "



I suggest you read up on the so-called “No True Scotsman” fallacy. Rarely is the statement made verbatim. (What is a “true conservative”, anyway? The Right is so diverse that the term could mean just about anything. I find the Libertarians are the only Right wing group to have any sort of internal consistency. The Religious Right likes to identify as the True Conservatives, but their insistence on social conformity conflicts with the right wing concept of liberties and freedoms).



FYI , consumptive taxes such as fuel excise taxes (the carbon tax is just an excise tax by another name – and they are generally regarded as very right wing concepts. The thinking is, if you MUST tax (and this is very reluctant MUST ) then a consumptive tax is the fairest way to approach it.



The Feds can’t actually force the provinces to stop charging a carbon tax anyway as it is just an excise tax, which they’re allowed to charge as per the Constitution. You might try to stop them from calling it a carbon tax, but that’s a pretty precarious legal argument. You can make it non-mandatory – in fact the particular Federal imposition on provincial matters in forcing the provinces to do it is Constitutionally dubious for the same reason – but the provinces are mostly doing it on their own anyway. Whether you like carbon taxes or not, is essentially a provincial matter even if some candidates include it in their platform.

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