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The federal Liberals have some strange ways of selling their plan for a national carbon tax.

Unbelievably, one is a cash incentive to vote conservative.

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Federal Environment Minister Catherine McKenna said in Toronto on Wednesday that if PC Leader Doug Ford becomes Ontario premier and abolishes cap-and-trade, the feds will impose their own carbon tax.

She added: “If the federal government has to step in, the revenues will go back to the province but we will determine how they go back, and we could give them back to people and businesses so they would not go to the government.”

The unintended consequence jumps up and shouts.

Defeat the current government (Liberal in Ontario, NDP here) and the rebate’s in the mail!

There would still be a carbon tax to feel warm inside about, and it wouldn’t cost you anything.

For people struggling to pay the rent in downtown Toronto or Calgary, that offer might look pretty good.