Killing Canada’s cash cow not the answer

Calgary Herald:

A report funded by TD Bank on the regional economic impact of climate change should be viewed with a jaundiced eye. Written by the agenda-driven David Suzuki Foundation and the Pembina Institute, it tells us that only by punishing Alberta with massive carbon taxes can the federal government meet its climate-change goal of reducing greenhouse-gas emissions by 20 per cent below 1990 levels by 2020.

Federal Environment Minister Jim Prentice is right to call the study irresponsible. For, as we have seen before with the Trudeau-era National Energy Program, bleeding Alberta is bad for all of Canada. Shooting the cash cow is not the answer.

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