“Cap and trade thus offers Quebec and Ontario an enormous competitive advantage over provinces subject to (the) carbon tax, namely B.C., Alberta,” as writer Peter Shawn Taylor, a senior editor at Maclean’s magazine, put it in a timely critique published in the National Post on Wednesday. “How’s that for a national plan?”
His point is that a truly national plan would level the playing field between the cap and trade provinces and those with carbon taxes. But Ottawa might be reluctant to do that because the Quebec scheme gives that province the built-in advantage it has always sought and often obtained on the national scene.
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